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Liquiçá
Sign in to saveLiquiçá (Tetum: Likisá) is a coastal city in Timor-Leste, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá District. The city has a population of 5,005 inhabitants.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Liquiçá
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- Likisá
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- Town
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- Portugiesische Villa in Liquica.jpg
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- East Timor
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- bottom
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- Location in Timor-Leste
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- Country
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- Municipality
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- Liquiçá District
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- 355.28
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- 2015 census
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- 5005
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- auto
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- 87
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- Aw
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Liquiçá (Tetum: Likisá) is a coastal city in Timor-Leste, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá District. The city has a population of 5,005 inhabitants.
==History== A part of the colonial administration of East Timor was arrested in Maubara and Liquiçá during the Japanese occupation of East Timor from 1942 - 1945. As a consequence the two towns where spared from the air raids which devastated the rest of the island. On 6 April 1999, in the campaign of intimidation and violence that preceded the referendum for East Timorese independence, about 200 persons were killed in the Liquiçá Church Massacre, when members of the Besi Merah Putih militia, supported by Indonesian soldiers and police, attacked the parish church Igreja de São João de Brito. (The number of casualties is disputed by Indonesia).
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