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Type Island
Usage Carolinian
Meaning & History
This is the Refaluwasch, what the Carolinian language name for themselves, name of the island of Saipan and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. Chamorros possible settled Seipél thousands of years ago. Carolinians helped hospitals that had leper patients that were quarantined on the island during the 1600s. Prominent Carolinian business leader David Sablan aka Uncle Dave (1932-) was born here.