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Portuguese Timor

Portuguese colony, now known as East Timor (Timor-Leste), an independent country

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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

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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).