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Lahane is a district of the East Timorese capital Dili .
geography
Lahane is located in the mountains, one and a half kilometers south of the city center of Dili, at an altitude of 376 m . It is divided into the Sucos Lahane Ocidental (West Lahane, Administration Office Vera Cruz ) and Lahane Oriental (East Lahane, Administration Office Nain Feto since 2004 ).
Lahane Ocidental and Mascarenhas are defined as urban, Lahane Oriental is not.
history
The Portuguese governor Afonso de Castro (1859 to 1861 and 1862 to 1863) built the new governor's residence ( Palácio de Lahane ) in Lahane and began construction of the Castro Lahane hospital ( Antigo Hospital Português ) in 1860 . The hospital in Lahane was divided into three areas: one for Europeans for four rupees , one for Chinese for three rupees and one for locals for two rupees per day. In 1877, an Australian described the hospital as a large, airy and clean building where a lot of attention was paid to the sick. In addition, under Governor José Manuel Pereira de Almeida (1863 to 1864), a mission school, the bridge and the road between Dili and Lahane were completed.
In 1869 a cholera epidemic raged in Dili. Governor João Clímaco de Carvalho (1870 to 1871) thought about a complete relocation of the capital to the climatically more favorable and less unhealthy Lahane. But the residents did not want to because of the water supply. In Dili almost every house had a well, in Lahane you had to get the water from a river a little further away. The mission school for the sons of local rulers ( Liurai ) was modernized under Vicar General António Joaquim de Medeiros in 1879 for 16,000 rupees. It now had residential buildings, a mission archive and the first library on Timor .
In 1887, Governor Alfredo de Lacerda Maia was murdered by a group of Moradores in an ambush on the road between Dili and Lahane. It was the beginning of the Moradores revolt .
By the end of the 19th century, several colonial-style houses and government buildings were built in Lahane, across the malaria-infested lowlands. In 1927 the governor's residence was in Lahane.
During the Second World War , Lahane was bombed by the Australian Air Force during the Battle of Timor .
On November 20, 1992, Xanana Gusmão , the leader of the East Timorese resistance movement FALINTIL , was captured in a house in Lahane during a large-scale operation by the Indonesian military TNI with 40,000 soldiers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical study 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).
Coordinates: 8 ° 35 ′ S , 125 ° 35 ′ E