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    Culture of Tonga

    The Tongan archipelago has been inhabited for perhaps 3,000 years, since settlement in late Lapita times. The culture of its inhabitants has surely changed greatly over this long time period. Before the arrival of European explorers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Tongans were in frequent contact with their nearest Oceanic neighbors, Fiji and Samoa. In the 19th century, with the arrival of Western traders and missionaries, Tongan culture changed dramatically. Some old beliefs and habits were thrown away and others adopted. Some accommodations made in the 19th century and early 20th century are now being challenged by changing Western civilization. Hence Tongan culture is far from a unified or monolithic affair, and Tongans themselves may differ strongly as to what it is "Tongan" to do, or not do. Contemporary Tongans often have strong ties to overseas lands. Wikipedia

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    The Tongan archipelago has been inhabited for perhaps 3,000 years, since settlement in late Lapita times. The culture of its inhabitants has surely changed greatly over this long time period. Before the arrival of European explorers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Tongans were in frequent contact with their nearest Oceanic neighbors, Fiji and Samoa.
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    The history of Tonga is recorded since the ninth century BC, when seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands which now make up the Kingdom of Tonga. [1] Along with Fiji and Samoa, the area served as a gateway into the rest of the Pacific region known as Polynesia. [2] Ancient Tongan mythologies recorded by early European explorers report the islands of 'Ata and ...
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    Tonga (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ə / TONG-ə, / ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ TONG-gə; [a] Tongan:), officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.The country has 171 islands - of which 45 are inhabited. [1] Its total surface area is about 750 km 2 (290 sq mi), scattered over 700,000 km 2 (270,000 sq mi) in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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    Oceanian culture encompasses the collective and diverse customs and traditions of art, architecture, music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, politics and religion that have been practiced and maintained by the many ethnic groups of the geographical region of Oceania since prehistory.Cultures of Oceania reflect not only that of the region's indigenous peoples, but also the cultures brought by ...
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    The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still roamed Europe. [7] The original inhabitants of the group of islands now named Melanesia were likely the ancestors of the present-day Papuan-speaking people.Migrating from Southeast Asia, they appear to have occupied these islands as far east ...
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    History of sport in Tonga (2 C) O. History of organisations based in Tonga (1 P) W. History of women in Tonga (3 C) This page was last edited on 24 August 2024, at 12:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional ...
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    The Tuʻi Tonga Empire, or Tongan Empire, are descriptions sometimes given to Tongan expansionism and projected hegemony in Oceania which began around 950 CE, reaching its peak during the period 1200-1500.. It was centred in Tonga on the island of Tongatapu, with its capital at Muʻa.Modern researchers and cultural experts attest to widespread Tongan influence, evidence of transoceanic trade ...
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    Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders.There also are several hundred Chinese.Almost two-thirds of the population live on its main island, Tongatapu.
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    The early history of Tonga covers the islands' settlement and the early Lapita culture through to the rise of the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. ... A hypothesis from Kirch is that Lapitan culture encouraged emigration by younger sons. [2] Not just in Tonga, but throughout the South Pacific is a tradition of passing down land to eldest sons. ...
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    The location of Tonga An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Tonga. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tonga: . Tonga is a sovereign island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. [1] Tonga comprises the Tonga Archipelago of 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line.
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