Portuguese Timor
Sign in to savePortuguese colony, now known as East Timor (Timor-Leste), an independent country
Key facts
- Status
- Colony of the Portuguese Empire , Occupied by the Japanese Empire , (1942–1945)
- Capital
- Lifau (1702–69), Dili (1769–1942; 1945–75)
- Common languages
- Tetum , Portuguese , Indonesian
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Monarch 1702 06
- Peter II (first)
- 1908 10
- Manuel II (last)
- President 1910 11
- Teófilo Braga (first)
- 1974 75 76
- Francisco da Costa Gomes (last de facto)
- 1702 05
- António Coelho Guerreiro (first)
- 1974 75
- Mário Lemos Pires (last)
- Japanese occupation of portuguese timor
- 1942–45
- Unilateral declaration of independence b
- 28 November 1975
- Invasion by indonesia
- 7 December 1975
- Independence achieved from indonesia
- 20 May 2002
- Total
- 14,874 km (5,743 sq mi)
- Currency
- Timorese pataca (PTP), Timorese escudo (PTE)
- Iso 3166 code
- TP
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- overseas province of Portugal
- Country
- Portuguese Empire
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Dili
- Official language
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Portuguese Timorese pataca
- Population
- 630000
- Area
- 14.925
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Significant event
- Indonesian occupation of East Timor
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- topic's main category
- Category:Portuguese Timor
- inception
- 1702-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2002-05-20
- Commons category
- Portuguese Timor
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Timor-Leste
- replaced by
- Timor-Leste
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofTimor-Leste
Portuguese Timor (Portuguese: Timor Português) was a Portuguese colony on the territory of present-day Timor-Leste from 1702 until 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
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