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    Bau (pronounced [ˈmba.u]) is a small island in Fiji, off the east coast of the main island of Viti Levu. Bau rose to prominence in the mid-1800s and became...
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  • Look up bau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bau or BAU may refer to: Bau (island) in Fiji Bau District, Fiji Bau (village), Fiji Bau, Sarawak, a mining...
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    Seru Epenisa Cakobau (category Politicians from Bau (island))
    was born on Natauloa, Nairai Island in Lomaiviti but spent his youth on Vanuaso, Gau, Lomaiviti, later returning to Bau to re-establish his Father's Ratu...
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    Fiji (redirect from Fiji Island)
    an eastern dialect, the speech of Bau Island, to be their written standard of the Fijian language. Bau Island was home to Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the chief...
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  • Cakobau by later Fijians, retroactively. The Cakobau Memorial Church on Bau Island is now referred to as the Ratu Cakobau Church. Ratu may also be used as...
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    Tanoa Visawaqa (category People from Bau (island))
    of a US privateer at Nukulau during the reign of his son Seru. The island of Bau was burned three times. First by the original occupants from Butoni...
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    Chief of the Kubuna Confederacy of the island of Bau in Fiji. Loosely translated the title means Warlord of Bau or "Root of War". The succession to the...
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    Joni Madraiwiwi I (category People from Bau (island))
    administrator in what was then the British Crown Colony of Fiji. Born in Bau, Madraiwiwi was the son of Bauan chief and rebel Ratu Mara Kapaiwai, who...
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    Lala Sukuna (category Politicians from Bau (island))
    to come. Sukuna was born into a chiefly family on Bau, off the island of Viti Levu, the largest island in the Fiji archipelago. His father, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi...
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  • Joni Madraiwiwi (category Politicians from Bau (island))
    born in Levuka, on the island of Ovalau, and subsequently titled Turaga na Roko Tui Bau, a vassal chief to the Vunivalu of Bau, Paramount Chief of the...
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