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This is a list of monarchs of Timor since the 17th century. Timor was traditionally divided into a large number of small kingdoms whose monarchs were variously known as liurais , rajas , regulos, na'i, etc.
East Timor became an independent nation. 2005: East Timor joined the ASEAN Regional Forum, as a part of the country's bid for accession to ASEAN as a whole. 2006: 2006 East Timorese crisis: A national crisis that included a coup attempt swept the nation.
Some of the activists continued their resistance even in exile. After World War II, the remaining exiles were pardoned and allowed to return. [20] 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 ...
The first European expedition to reach the islands of the Moluccas, Banda, and Timor was led by Portuguese navigator António de Abreu in 1512, although he did not land on Timor. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Later, Portuguese Dominican friars settled in Timor on 18 August 1515 and founded the town of Lifau in 1556 to protect the Timorese region and the trade of ...
The Democratic Republic of East Timor (Portuguese: República Democrática de Timor-Leste, Tetum: Repúblika Demokrátika de Timór-Lorosa'e), was a state that was unilaterally proclaimed on the territory of present-day East Timor on 28 November 1975 by Fretilin prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor nine days later on 7 December 1975.
East Timor was invaded and occupied by Indonesia in 1975, which annexed the territory as its "27th Province" in 1976, but in a referendum held in 1999, the people of East Timor voted to end Indonesian occupation and become an independent state. This caused widespread anger among many Indonesian nationalists, particularly in the military.
East Timor officially regained independence on 20 May 2002 after three years under the United Nations Interim Administration for East Timor (UNTAET). [1] From East Timor's perspective, this was the re-establishment of national independence, following the proclamation of independence from Portugal on November 28, 1975, and the Indonesian ...
Amarasi was a traditional princedom in West Timor, in present-day Indonesia. It had an important role in the political history of Timor during the 17th and 18th century, being a client state of the Portuguese colonialists, and later subjected to the Netherlands East Indies .