Crossword clues for nauruan
nauruan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nauruan \Nauruan\ prop. adj.
Of or pertaining to Nauru; as, Nauruan artifacts.
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Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Nauru; as, Nauruan natives.
Syn: Nauran.
Wikipedia
Nauruan may refer to:
- Something of, from, or related to the country of Nauru
- Nauruan people, persons from Nauru, or of Nauruan descent
- Culture of Nauru
- Nauruan language
Usage examples of "nauruan".
The Nauruans extract the chemicals from huge deposit of seafowl guano laid down over thousands of years.
The Brits and the Germans collaborate on mining, give the Nauruans nothing but flu and polio.
World War Two comes along, the Japanese invade and send most of the Nauruans to Chuuk as forced laborers.
This callous treatment of the Banabans in the 1920s and 1930s, like that of the Nauruans on a similar island 250 kilometres to the west, is a demonstration of the self-interest of colonial governments when there was a sufficiently valuable resource worth exploiting.
A quarter of a century later, however, the Nauruans were unwilling to accept that sort of solution, and after some years of hard bargaining, became independent in 1968, winning at the same time complete control over their phosphate ore on which previously they had been receiving small royalties.