Cowa

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Cowa
Border guards at a state border sign in Cowa
The Suco Cowa is located in the south of the Balibo administrative office.
Data
surface 75.76 km²
population 1,712  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Saul da Cruz
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Bawai 553
Futatas 32
Lalis 524
Mane hat 286
Rai Luli 317
Futatas (East Timor)
Futatas
Futatas
Coordinates: 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E

Cowa ( Cová ) is an East Timorese Suco in the southwest of the Balibo Administrative Office ( Bobonaro municipality ).

geography

Cowa
places position height
Bawai 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 1 ′  E 621  m
Fatukbelak 9 ° 1 ′  S , 124 ° 59 ′  E 353  m
Futatas 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 388  m
Haliren 9 ° 0 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 475  m
Caimubes 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 444  m
Kolobili 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 2 ′  E 444  m
Oepauk 9 ° 0 ′  S , 125 ° 2 ′  E 624  m
Mane hat 9 ° 1 ′  S , 124 ° 58 ′  E 319  m
Rai Luli 9 ° 1 ′  S , 124 ° 57 ′  E 326  m
Solehae 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 426  m
Sukaren 9 ° 2 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 426  m
Wefau 9 ° 3 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 305  m
Wekese 9 ° 1 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 426  m
Weono 9 ° 2 ′  S , 124 ° 57 ′  E 325  m
Wesi 9 ° 0 ′  S , 125 ° 0 ′  E 590  m

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Cowa had an area of ​​80.31 km². Now there are 75.76 km². The Suco is located in the south of the Balibo administrative office. In the north lies the Suco Batugade , in the northeast Balibo Vila and in the east Leohito . To the south and west, Cowa borders the Indonesian West Timor . The border to the neighboring country is largely formed by the Talau River, later called Taipui .

The largest settlement center of Cowas is Futatas with the surrounding villages Wekese ( Weklese ), Solehae , Sukaren , Katimuben and Fatukbelak . Futatas is in the middle of the sucos. In the northeast are the villages Bawai ( Bauwai , Bau Ai ), Kolobili , Wesi , Haliren and Oepauk , in the south the place Wefau and in the west the villages Mane Hat ( Manehat , German  "four men" ), Rai Luli ( Railuli ) and Weono . In the settlement center of Futatas there is a medical aid post and a primary school. There is another primary school in Rai Luli.

In Cowa there are the five Aldeias Bawai , Futatas , Lalis , Mane Hat and Rai Luli .

Residents

1712 inhabitants (2015) live in the Suco, of which 862 are men and 850 women. The population density is 22.6 inhabitants / km². There are 323 households in the Suco. Over 65% of the population name Tetum Terik as their mother tongue. More than 30% speak Bekais and a small minority speak Tetum Prasa .

history

Pig transport in Cowa 1968/70

Cowa used to be one of the traditional empires of Timor , ruled by Liurais . It appears on a list by Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868. The Cowas Empire extended from the Sawusee to the area of ​​the Dutch West Timor. Batugade, with its Portuguese fortress , was also in the Cowas area.

In 1865 the Tetum empire of Cowa united with Balibo in the fight against the Portuguese. The fact that Cowa was also supported by rulers from the western part of the island worried the Portuguese even more. Portugal responded by bombarding the coast with the Sa de Bandeira steamship corvette . In 1868 a Portuguese offensive against Cowa and Balibo began from Batugade . While Balibo surrendered in 1871, Cowa did not recognize the supremacy of Portugal until 1881.

From 1894 Cowa supported, along with other empires in the west of Portuguese Timor, Obulo and Marobo in the revolt against the Portuguese . In September 1895 the Timorese were able to destroy the force of Captain Eduardo da Câmara. All European officers were also killed, and Câmara was beheaded. Governor José Celestino da Silva then dispatched a punitive expedition that successively plagued the rebel empires and razed them to the ground. Lieutenant Francisco Duarte and Captain Francisco Elvaim commanded the force with almost 6,000 men, including 40 Portuguese. After Sanirin was devastated in August 1896 , resistance in Cowa was weak. Here, too, there were looting and murders. In the ritual center of Cowas, the Portuguese found the heads of Câmara and others hanging on a tree. Many residents had fled to West Timor in the Netherlands.

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , João Martins R. Hornai was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections won Saul da Cruz .

Web links

Commons : Cowa  - 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. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  3. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  4. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 535 kB)
  6. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  7. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Cowa ( tetum ; PDF; 8.5 MB)
  8. ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of November 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ a b History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 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. (PDF; 824 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  11. ↑ Andrey Damaledo: Divided Loyalties: Displacement, belonging and citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor , pp. 27–30, ANU press, 2018, limited preview in Google Book Search
  12. ^ R. Roque: Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930 , pp. 19ff., 2010, ff. & Q = Deribate # v = onepage restricted preview in the Google book search
  13. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ 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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