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East Timor. / -8.55; 125.56. East Timor, [a] also known as Timor-Leste, [b] officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor - of which the western half is administered by Indonesia - the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor ...
- Timor
Timor (Portuguese: Ilha de Timor, Tetum: Illa Timór,...
- Parliament
Elections are held every five years using a party-list...
- Tautological Place Name
A place name is tautological if two differently sounding...
- Beatriz's War
East Timor: Languages: Tetum Indonesian: Budget: $200,000...
- History
East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of...
- East Timor independence
East Timor officially regained independence on 20 May 2002...
- Timor
East Timor is a small country located between Australia and Indonesia, 3,000 years ago, East Timor was a mountainous island composed of migrant indigenous people from New Guinea, Australia and Melanesia. There were some migrants from Austronesia searching for a new life on this island.
- East Timorese
East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor - of which the western half is administered by Indonesia - the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. Australia is the country's southern neighbour, separated by ...
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East Timor. The Portuguese first settled on Timor in 1520, and the Spanish arrived in 1522. The Dutch took possession of the western portion of the island in 1613. The British governed the island in 1812–15. The Dutch and the Portuguese fought for supremacy over Timor, and Portuguese sovereignty over the island’s eastern half was settled by ...
In late 1941, Portuguese Timor was briefly occupied by Dutch and Australian troops, fighting the Empire of Japan.When the Japanese landed and drove the small Australian force out of Dili, the mountainous interior became the scene of a guerrilla campaign, known as the Battle of Timor from 1942-1943, waged by Allied forces and Timorese volunteers against the Japanese.
