Atsabe

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Atsabe
Atsabe (East Timor)
Atsabe
Atsabe
Coordinates 8 ° 55 ′  S , 125 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 55 ′  S , 125 ° 24 ′  E
Ermera subdistricts.png
Basic data
Country East Timor

local community

Ermera
Administrative office Atsabe
Suco Laclo
height 1507 m

Atsabe ( in old sources: Artessabe , Atisasabo ) is the main town of the Atsabe administrative office in the East Timorese municipality of Ermera . In 1936 Atsabe was renamed Nova Ourém by the Portuguese . But the name did not catch on and a few years after the Second World War , the old name was reverted to.

geography

View from the pension in the village of Atsabe

The place Atsabe is located in the Suco Laclo at an altitude of 1507  m above sea level. It is 45 km to the northeast to the state capital Dili as the crow flies, and 24 km to the municipal capital Gleno . A road connects Atsabe north with Letefoho and on to Gleno, south with Bobonaro , Maliana and Zumalai .

There is a striking tomb next to the administrative building of the administrative office. It says Morto por Portugal ("Died for Portugal") in Portuguese . The remains of Dom Siprianu ( Koronel messenger of Atsabe- Kemak from 1912 to 1943) have been resting in it since 2000 . They were transferred to a second burial as part of a ritual of the traditional Kemak religion . The close proximity of the tomb to the administration building is a symbol of the claim to power of the former ruling family. The contradiction between the feudal system and traditional religion of Timor on the one hand and the parliamentary-democratic system of the independent East Timor and the Catholic Church on the other led to heated discussions about this tomb.

Near the place lies on the road to Letefoho the Bandeira , East Timor's most famous waterfall.

Six to seven kilometers outside the town, plans for a hydropower plant have been underway since 2007. The water of the Magapu River is to be led downhill through a canal and a pipe. The power plant could produce 10 to 15 GWh annually.

history

Fixed in the center of Atsabe (1968/70). In the background in clouds, the Tatamailau
Market in Atsabe (1968/70)
View of the town of Atsabe (1968/70)

Atsabe was one of the centers of Timor even before the colonial era . The ruler was the coronel messenger ( Tetum : Liurai ) of the Atsabe-Kemak . Atsabe used to dominate all of Kemak's inhabited areas in East Timor. In addition to the region of Atsabe, this affected areas in the north of today's Bobonaro municipality, in northern Ainaro and in the area of Suai . The Atsabe rulers had a reputation for being particularly inclined to rebel against the Portuguese and their presence. They repeatedly resisted the invaders. In the 18th century Atsabe took part in the Cailaco rebellion against the Portuguese.

During the Japanese occupation of Timor (1942-1945), the Atsabe-Kemak offered passive resistance by refusing to do forced labor or deliver food to the Japanese . The occupiers therefore imprisoned the Koronel messenger Dom Siprianu and six of his relatives, who were inherited from him. One after the other were executed by the Japanese. Nevertheless, the residents of Atsabe continued to resist and, for example, also hid Australian soldiers who were waging a guerrilla war here.

The last coronel messenger of Atsabe and Dom Siprianu's son, Dom Guilherme Maria Gonçalves , was a strong supporter of APODETI in the 1970s. Between 1978 and 1982 he was Governor of Indonesia in Timor Timur .

Sons and daughters

The politician Francisco Gomes was born in Atsabe in 1965.

literature

Web links

Commons : Atsabe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  2. 150 Anos da criação de distritos em Timor
  3. Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). September 2014.
  4. Preparations for Atsabe Magapu ( Memento from January 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ A b c Andrea K. Molnar: Died in the service of Portugal
  6. Timor-Leste, Eleições Gerais de 2012 , accessed on September 2, 2012