Batugade

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Batugade
Batugade Protestant Church
Batugade is to the west of Balibo on the coast. The place Batugade is on the west coast of the Sucos.
Data
surface 43.59 km²
population 2,678  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Afonso Pereira
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Batugade 494
Lotan 1,873
Nu Badac 311
Batugade (East Timor)
Batugade
Batugade
Coordinates: 8 ° 57 ′  S , 124 ° 58 ′  E

The East Timorese place and Suco Batugade (also Batugede ) is located in the Office of Administration Balibo ( community Bobonaro ), on the coast of the Savu Sea and near the border with Indonesian West Timor .

Place name

The place name comes from the Kemak and means "flat rock". In 1936, Batugade was renamed Caxias do Extremo 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.

The place

Timorese Customs in Batugade

Batugade is 70 km as the crow flies (112 km by road) west of the state capital Dili at 100  m above sea level . Relatively well-developed roads lead from here along the coast to Dili and inland to Balibo and the municipal capital Maliana . The place itself consists of the districts Batugade, Halinsana and Nu Badac ( Nu Badac , Nubadak ).

The Portuguese fort Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido from 1655, with massive walls and some old cannons, is located in the village . Batugade beach is said to have tourist potential. There is also a primary school and a medical station here. In addition, there is a bridge over the Leometik River , which flows into the Sawusee here . To the north there is a preparatory school for the secondary level.

The Suco

Batugade
places position height
Aumodok 8 ° 57 ′  S , 124 ° 59 ′  E 181  m
Badutmean 8 ° 59 ′  S , 124 ° 57 ′  E 302  m
Batugade 8 ° 57 '  S , 124 ° 58'  E 100  m
Biae 8 ° 58 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 236  m
Halinsana 8 ° 57 '  S , 124 ° 58'  E 44  m
Kolosuma 8 ° 58 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 275  m
Lotan (center) 8 ° 58 ′  S , 124 ° 59 ′  E ?
Lotan (Southeast) 8 ° 59 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 325  m
Maudekut 8 ° 59 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 325  m
Mota'ain 8 ° 58 ′  S , 124 ° 57 ′  E 69  m
Motamorak 8 ° 58 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 236  m
Nu Badac 8 ° 57 ′  S , 124 ° 59 ′  E 69  m
Sukabelulik 8 ° 57 ′  S , 124 ° 59 ′  E 237  m
Tapo 8 ° 56 ′  S , 125 ° 2 ′  E 366  m

The Suco Batugade has 2678 inhabitants (2015), of which 1344 are men and 1334 women. The population density is 61.4 inhabitants / km². There are 504 households in the Suco. About 45% of the population name Tetum Prasa as their mother tongue, over 35% Tetum Terik . Over 10% speak Kemak , under 5% Bekais and small minorities Tokodede or Baikeno .

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Batugade had an area of ​​48.62 km². Now there are 43.59 km². The Suco is located in the west of the Balibo administrative office on the coast of the Sawu Sea. In the north it borders on the Suco Sanirin , in the east on Balibo Vila, in the south on Cowa and in the west on the Indonesian West Timor. The rivers Kolosuma and Morak have their source in the southeast . At the place Kolosuma the rivers meet and form the river Leometik from here. In Batugade, the main road from Maliana meets the northern coastal road, one of the country's most important connections. From Batugade, the coastal road leads 2.5 km west to the village of Mota'ain , with the main border crossing between East Timor and Indonesia and a helipad for emergencies. The West Timorese town of Atapupu is 12 km away by road from here.

Aumodok , Lotan , Motamorak and Kolosuma lie on the road to Maliana from west to east . At Motamorak the road leads over a bridge over the Leometik. From here a small road also leads south, along the Morak. Here are the places Biae , Maudekut ( Maudekur ) and another place called Lotan . In the northeast there is also the village of Tapo , in the southwest the village of Badutmean . There is a primary school in the settlement center of Aumodok, Lotan and Motamorak.

In Batugade are the three aldeias Batugade , Lotan and Nu Badac .

  • Landscape on the border with West Timor

  • Red acacias near Batugade

  • Batugade bank

history

Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido Fortress (1898)
Indonesian soldiers pose with a captured Portuguese flag in Batugade, East Timor, in November 1975

Antonio Pigafetta landed on January 26, 1522 on board the Spanish ship Victoria as the first European in the region near Batugade and stayed for 18 days. The Portuguese built their first fort in Batugade as early as 1655. Today the Fort Reduto do Conselheiro Jacinto Cândido stands here . The region was part of the Cowa Empire. Just a few kilometers further, the larger fortress of Balibo was built during the same period .

During the Cailaco Rebellion in 1726, a Portuguese force was sent from here to take the rebel center of Cailaco together with troops from Dili , but the siege was unsuccessful. In the course of the rebellion, the fort was abandoned. Governor Pedro de Rego Barreto da Gama e Castro filled the post again in 1731 and made peace with the local rebel chief Dom Lourenço da Costa , a topasse . In 1734 Batugade rebelled again against the Portuguese, but they could fall back on reinforcements from Goa . When the Portuguese gave up Lifau in 1769 and moved the capital of the colony to Dili, they made a stopover in Batugade and reinforced the fort to ward off the rebellious Topasse in the west.

Governor José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa ( 1815-1820 ) put down a rebellion in Batugade. In 1868 the Batugade Fort became the base of the military expedition against the rebellious Cowa Empire . In 1871, the Queen of Balibo, allied with Cowa, Dona Maria Michaelia Doutel da Costa, capitulated . As agreed, she met Governor João Clímaco de Carvalho on May 29 in Batugade . The Queen of Cowa did not come. Therefore, on June 1, Dona Maria alone signed the agreements submitted to her, which meant the submission of Balibo as a vassal of Portugal. Cowa did not recognize the supremacy of Portugal until 1881. During the War of Manufahi (1894–1896), insurgents from Fatumean occupied the fort in 1896 , while the troops actually stationed there fought elsewhere. Then the fort was rebuilt and named after the Portuguese overseas minister Jacinto Cândido .

During the Portuguese dictatorship , the fort was a notorious prison for exiles, known as "The Cemetery of the Living".

At the beginning of 1961, the left-wing Office for the Liberation of Timor ( Bureau de Luta pela Libertação de Timor ) under Maoclao , with financial support from Indonesia, attempted an uprising against Portuguese colonial rule. On April 9, 1961, they proclaimed a republic in Batugade and set up a Timorese government with twelve ministers. The Portuguese quickly put down the uprising and the fighters fled to Indonesia.

On October 8, 1975, two months before the official start of the invasion, Indonesian troops occupied the border town of Batugade and set up their headquarters for Operation Flamboyan . They pretended to be fighters from the UDT , which had previously been defeated by FRETILIN . On October 16, the remaining were district of Bobonaro and the circle Cova Lima occupied by the Indonesians. On December 7th, Indonesia began invading the rest of East Timor.

Quarantine facility in Batugade (2020)

On March 25, a quarantine facility was opened at the border post in Batugade because of the impending COVID-19 pandemic in East Timor .

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , Pedro das Dores was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections won Afonso Pereira .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Bobonaro District Development Plan 2002/2003 ( Memento of March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 566 kB)
  4. ↑ a b UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 535 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unmit.unmissions.org
  5. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  6. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Batugade ( Tetum ; PDF; 8.5 MB)
  7. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2010 census; PDF; 22.6 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dne.mof.gov.tl
  8. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  10. ^ Colonial Voyage: Asia. Portuguese Colonial Remains 16th – 18th centuries , accessed January 6, 2015.
  11. ↑ Artur Teodoro de Matos: Tradição e inovação na administração das ilhas de Solor e Timor: 1650–1750 ( Memento of June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon, pp. 88 & 89 ( Memento of the original of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically 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
  13. ↑ a b Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512–1945) suivie des événements récents (1975–1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
  14. ↑ Tina Modotti on the Batugade prison (German)
  15. ^ Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University
  16. ↑ LUSA: Covid-19: Polícia timorense faz detenções na fronteira por incumprimento de medidas de quarentena , March 25, 2020 , accessed on March 26, 2020.
  17. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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