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Falefa
Major General George S. Richardson, Administrator of Samoa between 1923 and 1928. Falefā is located on the north eastern coast of Upolu island in Samoa. It was the ancient capital during the ('government') of (King) Fonoti after defeating his kin Va afusuaga Toleafoa and Samalaulu for control of Samoa. King Fonoti chose to rule from his new seat in Falefa, an honour remembered in its faalupega (Charter and Salutations) to this day. Falefa is headed by the descendants of its two founders – Moeono Falealoga (tulafale-alii or 'matua) and Leutele Leutogatui (matua-alii), the sons of Tui Atua Lemua iteleloloa and his wife, Leateafaiga. It is situated in the Anoama a 1 electoral constituency which itself is situated within the larger ancient political 'district' of Anoama a, a province of Atua. Atua is headed by the Tui Atua (sovereign of Atua), a title once held by the seer Tui Ātua Leutele (called Tui Atua Leutelelei ite) in the 10th century, during Samoa's period of antiquity. Since the 17th century, this mantle has been occupied mainly by one of the two Tama-a- aiga (maximal lineage chiefs) of Ātua's Salamasina line: Tupua Tamasese and Mata afa. Together with the village of Salani, Falefa is home to one of Samoa's main political families, (descendants of Fenunuivao, wife of King Muagututi a and mother of the first Tupua, Fuiavailili).…
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Major General George S. Richardson, Administrator of Samoa between 1923 and 1928. Falefā is located on the north eastern coast of Upolu island in Samoa. It was the ancient capital during the ('government') of (King) Fonoti after defeating his kin Va afusuaga Toleafoa and Samalaulu for control of Samoa. King Fonoti chose to rule from his new seat in Falefa, an honour remembered in its faalupega (Charter and Salutations) to this day. Falefa is headed by the descendants of its two founders – Moeono Falealoga (tulafale-alii or 'matua) and Leutele Leutogatui (matua-alii), the sons of Tui Atua Lemua iteleloloa and his wife, Leateafaiga. It is situated in the Anoama a 1 electoral constituency which itself is situated within the larger ancient political 'district' of Anoama a, a province of Atua. Atua is headed by the Tui Atua (sovereign of Atua), a title once held by the seer Tui Ātua Leutele (called Tui Atua Leutelelei ite) in the 10th century, during Samoa's period of antiquity. Since the 17th century, this mantle has been occupied mainly by one of the two Tama-a- aiga (maximal lineage chiefs) of Ātua's Salamasina line: Tupua Tamasese and Mata afa. Together with the village of Salani, Falefa is home to one of Samoa's main political families, (descendants of Fenunuivao, wife of King Muagututi a and mother of the first Tupua, Fuiavailili).…
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