German–Spanish Treaty (1899)
- German–Spanish Treaty (1899)
The German–Spanish Treaty of 1899 was a treaty between the German Reich and Spain, where Spain sold the remainder of its Pacific Ocean islands to Germany for 17 million Marks.
After its defeat in the Spanish–American War and the Treaty of Paris where it lost the Philippines and Guam to the United States, Spain had only three archipelagos of small islands and atolls left in the Pacific, which had become ungovernable after the loss of the administrative center Manila.
Germany, which was present in German New Guinea since 1884, forced Spain after a show of strength to sell its Pacific territories: the Caroline Islands, the Mariana Islands and Palau. With this treaty, signed on February 12 1899, Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Silvela le Vielleuze definitively put an end to the Spanish East Indies.
External links
* [http://1898.mforos.com/1035040/5790771-venta-a-alemania-las-islas-carolinas-las-palaos-y-islas-marianas/ Text of the Treaty (in Spanish)]
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