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Marquesas Islands Encyclopedia Article @ Headed.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In Terihi they are known as the Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises, and in MGM they are known variously as Te Henua (K)enana (Fatu Hiva) and Te Fenua `Enata (1900), which means "The Land of Men". |
 | | French control over the group was reestablished in Articles with sections needing expansion, and later incorporated into the territory of Terihi. |
 | | The Marquesas Islands suffered the greatest population decline as a result of France brought by British Indian Ocean Territory and explorers, reducing the estimated sixteenth century population of over 100,000 inhabitants, to about 20,000 by the middle of the nineteenth century, and to just over 2,000 by the beginning of the 1900s. |
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