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Portuguese Timor (Portuguese: Timor Português) was a Portuguese colony on the territory of present-day East Timor from 1702 until 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies. The first Europeans to arrive in the region were the Portuguese in 1515. [1]
Timor (Portuguese: Ilha de Timor, Tetum: Illa Timór, Indonesian: Pulau Timor) is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of Timor-Leste in the eastern part and Indonesia in the western part.
Map of Timor-Leste Located between Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, [ 97 ] : 2 the island of Timor is the largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands , which lie within the Malay Archipelago . [ 98 ] : 1 As such, Timor forms part of the Wallacea region, the boundary region between Asia and Oceania, along with the Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi , and the ...
Portuguese soldiers in East Timor. Although Portugal was neutral during World War II, in December 1941, Portuguese Timor was occupied by Australian and Dutch forces, which were expecting a Japanese invasion. This Australian military intervention dragged Portuguese Timor into the Pacific War but it also slowed the Japanese expansion.
Timor-Leste was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century, and was known as Portuguese Timor until Portugal's decolonization of the country. In late 1975 East Timor declared its independence but was invaded and occupied by Indonesia later that year, and declared that country's 27th province the following year.
Portugal portal; Portuguese Timor (1702 to 1975) — a former Portuguese colony on the eastern island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands archipelago. Part of the Portuguese Empire until 1975, when the Indonesian invasion of East Timor sparked a violent military occupation by Indonesia for 25 years. It became the independent nation of East ...
East Timor is a predominantly Roman Catholic region, a legacy of Portugal's rule [1] Portugal had effective control of East Timor only after the second half of the 20th century. [ 2 ] Following fighting between rival groups seeking independence from Portugal, Indonesia invaded East Timor and annexed it in 1976 [ 2 ] after East Timor declared ...
Map of East Timor. This is a list of European (as well as Australian and Japanese) colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Portuguese Timor , an area equivalent to modern-day East Timor .