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瑙鲁内战

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1880年左右,瑙鲁内战中身穿传统战斗盔甲的瑙鲁战士

瑙鲁内战(英語:Nauruan Civil War)发生在1878年—1888年10月,战争双方分别为效忠时任瑙鲁国王阿维达英语Aweida的力量和那些试图推翻他、支持另一位竞争者的势力。内战的导火索是火器被引入岛上,导致全体瑙鲁居民(瑙鲁人)掌握了武器。在战争的大部分时间里,忠于国王的一方和反叛者陷入僵局,一方控制着岛屿的北部,另一方则控制着南部。

1888年,德意志帝国介入,帮助阿维达复位,并没收了交战双方的火器。德军最终从双方参战人员手中收缴了791支步枪,几乎相当于岛上剩下的成年居民人均拥有一支枪。据历史学家估计,1848年瑙鲁的人口约为1400;战争结束时,人口减少至约900。

随着内战结束,瑙鲁实际上被置于德国的控制之下,不久之后成为德国殖民地,隶属德属新几内亚[1][2]

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  1. ^ The Nauru War - The Smallest Conflict in History. MilitaryHistoryNow.com. 2013-02-18 [2022-01-03] (美国英语). The conflict, which was fuelled by equal parts locally-made palm wine and European armaments, broke out during a wedding feast on the three-kilometre-wide island in 1878. A disagreement between two guests over the finer points of dining etiquette grew hostile, at which point one of the debaters produced a pistol and began blazing away. A stray bullet struck the son of a clan chief killing him. The island’s factions, who were already nursing old grudges, used the occasion to attack one another. The fighting escalated from there. 
  2. ^ Petit-Skinner, Solange. The Nauruans: Nature and Supernature in an Island of the Central Pacific. MacDuff Press. 1981: 29. ISBN 9780960627202 (英语). This pervasive influence ended, in 1878, with a full scale war which broke out between the people of the Northern and Southern districts.