German-Spanish Treaty (1899)

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German-Spanish Treaty (1899)

The German–Spanish Treaty of 1899 was a treaty between the German Empire

German Empire

The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of William I, German Emperor as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became Weimar republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of William II, German Emperor ....
and Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, with the latter selling the remainder of its Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
islands to Germany for 25 million peseta

Peseta

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s or respectively 17 million Mark

German gold mark

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overed to the occidentals in 1526, by the Spanish explorer Toribio Alonso de Salazar, he called them "Carolinas" after the emperor Carlos I of Spain, also known as Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556....
of the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

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The German–Spanish Treaty of 1899 was a treaty between the German Empire

German Empire

Spain

Pacific Ocean

Peseta

German gold mark

The Goldmark is the name used for the currency of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914....
s.

Precedents

Discovered to the occidentals in 1526, by the Spanish explorer Toribio Alonso de Salazar, he called them "Carolinas" after the emperor Carlos I of Spain, also known as Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556....
of the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
. The Portuguese explorer Diego da Rocha also named them the Sequeira Islands in 1527. Though early Spanish navigators in the area (from 1543) called them the Nuevas Filipinas ("New Philippines"), Admiral Francisco Lazeano named them the Carolinas after the Spanish King Charles II

Charles II of Spain

Charles II , was the last Habsburg Spain of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy , the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spanish empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines....
in 1686.

Some few Western travellers subsequently visited the islands, but an early visit of missionaries (1732) resulted in one of several murderous attacks on the newcomers; and only in 1875 did Spain, claiming the group, make some attempt to assert her rights.

The Caroline Islands were subsequently placed under the Spanish East Indies, administered from the Philippines. Germany, which had occupied Yap

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, disputed the Spanish claim, even sending the gunboat Iltis, and the matter went to the arbitration of Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903, succeeding Pope Pius IX....
in 1885. He decided in favor of Spain, but gave Germany free trading rights. The Spanish did not occupy any island formally until 1886.

After its defeat in the Spanish–American War and the Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Paris (1898)

The Treaty of Paris of 1898, signed on December 10, 1898, ended the Spanish-American War.American and Spanish delegates met in Paris on October 1, 1898 to produce a treaty that would bring an end to the war after six months of hostilities....
where it lost the Philippines

Philippines

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and Guam

Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
to the United States, Spain had in its possession about 6000 islands left in the Pacific. The islands however were extremely small, sparsely populated, and not very productive and they had become ungovernable after the loss of the administrative center Manila

Manila

The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....
and undefendable after the entire loss of two Spanish fleets in 1898. Spain therefore found the islands ungovernable and undefendable and the only solution to this was to sell it to a country which would take charge of them and in this sense, Germany pressured the Spanish government to facilitate the sale of the islands.

The Caroline Islands

Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands form a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end....
, the Mariana Islands

Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands are an archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east....
and Palau

Palau

Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an borderless country in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo....
were included in the treaty. With this treaty, signed on February 12 1899, Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Silvela put an end to the Spanish East Indies

Spanish East Indies

Spanish East Indies , was a term used to describe Spain territories in Asia-Pacific which lasted over three centuries . It encompassed the Philippine Islands , and its dependencies including the Mariana Islands and the Caroline Islands, and for a period of time, parts of Formosa , Sabah, and parts of the Moluccas....
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German-Spanish Treaty (1899)

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