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Timur used Persian expressions in his conversations often, and his motto was the Persian phrase rāstī rustī (راستی رستی, meaning "truth is safety" or "veritas salus"). [134] He is credited with the invention of the Tamerlane chess variant, played on a 10×11 board.
"Timor" is derived from timur, meaning ' east ' in Malay, thus resulting in a tautological place name meaning ' East East '.In Indonesian, this results in the name Timor Timur (the name of the former de facto Indonesian province; Timor Leste is used instead to refer to the country).
Timur, Temur, Temür, Temir, Teymur or Tömör is a masculine Turkic and Mongolic given name which literally means iron. It is a cognate of the Bosnian and Turkish name Demir . In Indonesian, timur translates to east , and symbolizes hope by the rising sun.
Within West Timor lies an exclave of East Timor called Oecusse District. The island covers an area of 30,777 square kilometres (11,883 square miles). The name is a variant of timur, Malay for "east"; it is so called because it lies at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Mainland Australia is less than 500 km away, separated by the ...
East Timor, (East East): From the Indonesian and Malay word "timur", meaning "east"; "Timor-Leste" has the same meaning, leste meaning "east" in Portuguese. (This is strictly not a tautology, as the country East Timor indeed takes up the eastern half of the island Timor ; the island was named thus by peoples living west of it.
East Timor (Indonesian: Timor Timur) was a province of Indonesia between 1976 and 1999, during the Indonesian occupation of the country. Its territory corresponded to the previous Portuguese Timor and to the present-day independent country of East Timor. From 1702 to 1975, East Timor was an overseas territory of Portugal, called "Portuguese Timor".
East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania.The country comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor and the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco.
The flag of Timor Timur, as East Timor was officially called at the time, displayed the provincial coat of arms on an orange background. [12] When a Portuguese parliamentary delegation was due to visit East Timor in 1989, the Indonesian government distributed 30,000 Indonesian flags to be placed on the homes of Dili.