Bibiluto

Bibiluto
Bibiluto
Coordinates	8 ° 56 ′  S , 126 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 56 ′  S , 126 ° 24 ′  E
Basic data
Country	East Timor
local community	Viqueque
Administrative office	Viqueque
Suco	Uma Uain Craic
height	35 m

Bibiluto is an East Timorese town on the Bibiluto plain. He belongs to the Suco Uma Uain Craic (until 2015 to Maluru ) in the administrative office of Viqueque (municipality of Viqueque ). It is located near the Timor Sea in the east at an altitude of 35  m , southeast of the municipal capital Viqueque , between the rivers Bularan and Cuha . The southern coastal road, one of the most important traffic routes in East Timor, runs through Bibiluto.

history

On a Portuguese map from 1914, Bibiluto dominates today's municipality of Viqueque

Around 1700 the Dominican Manuel de Santo António carried out his first missionary work here and converted several Liurais ( minor kings ) of the region to Christianity. In 1769 Bibiluto appeared on a list of Timorese empires that were included in the Belu Province . Also Afonso de Castro , former governor of Portuguese Timor (1859-1863) leads the kingdom on its list of the 1868th Castro had assigned Bibiluto to the military command of Viqueque in 1860.

Ruler of Bibiluto

Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo listed the following rulers of Bibiluto in his 2011 book:

• Dom Joao (1703)
• Cathedral Caetano de Melo de Castro (1726)
• Dom Mateus da Costa (around 1769)
• Dona Isabel de Carvalho da Silva (1815)
• Dom António (1818)
• Dom Domingos da Costa (1854)
• Dom Bernardo Cardoso (1874–1881)
• Dona Guimare da Costa (1891–?)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Artur Teodoro de Matos: D. Frei Manuel de Santo António: missionário e primeiro bispo residente em Timor. Elementos para a sua biografia (1660-1733) ( Memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
2. ↑ Hans Hägerdal: Servião and Belu: Colonial conceptions and the geographical partition of Timor ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 338 kB)
3. ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2001 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. 
4. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912 . Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-08-7 , ( Abera Network Asia-Pacific 4), (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1994).
6. ↑ Belo, Dom Carlos Filipe Ximenes (2011) Os antigos reinos de Timor-Leste (Reys de Lorosay e Reys de Lorotoba, Coronéis e Datos), pp. 242–244. Baucau: Tipografia Diocesana Baucau (2011).