Mad war
The War of the Mad ( Portuguese guerra de loucas , also guerra dos doidas ) was an uprising against the colonial power Portugal , which started from the Timorese empire of Luca . It began in 1777 (according to other sources in 1776, 1779 or 1781) and ended in 1785.
Happening
It was not until 1769 that the Portuguese were driven from their old Timorese colonial capital, Lifau, to Dili . The rebellion of the mighty empire Luca, in the east of the Southeast Asian island, shook the rule of the Europeans again. In the west, at the same time, Sonbai Kecil and Amakono rose against the Dutch East India Company .
The rebellion was triggered by repression by the Portuguese against the animist religion . A "prophetess" announced to the warriors that the ancestors would help them to shake off the yoke of strangers. The incited warriors considered themselves invulnerable. They fought accordingly, which earned them the Portuguese name “maniacos” ( German crazy ). The movement originated outside Luca's center of power, but Lucas ruler Sie Dom Sebastião do Amaral (before about 1769 to about 1782) took advantage of and supported it. The rebellion spread across several kingdoms in the neighborhood.
The Portuguese responded with the usual reaction, sending them loyal Timorese, like the Empire of Viqueque , to destroy the settlements of the rebellious areas. In this way Luca lost control of Venilale , which now, as a vassal of Portugal, became an independent empire.
Eventually the rebellion was put down by Governor João Baptista Vieira Godinho (1785-1788). Luca managed to make a peace with the Portuguese, but had to accept the loss of Venilale and the strengthening of the neighbor Viqueque, who was probably also subordinate to Luca before.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , pp. 336–337, 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 .
- ↑ a b c Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor ( Memento of the original from 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. , P. 50, available from Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina , CEsA of the TU Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB).
- ^ Royal Timor: Sonbai ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Hans Hägerdal: Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea; Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800, p. 407, (2012).
