Which enwiki-pages-meta-history?
enwiki/latest
Sorry, this was my error: In the dump file I was looking at "AmericanSamoa", which was redirected to "American Samoa" (2002-02-25) and then -- already as a redirect link -- it was edited again (2005-07-03 and later).
All those edits should appear there no matter how old the file is,
Yes, thank you very much.