Laleia
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 32 ' S , 126 ° 10' E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Manatuto | |||
| Administrative office | Laleia | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-MT | ||
| Suco | Lifau , Haturalan | ||
| height | 156 m | ||
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Laleia ( Leleia, Laleila, Lalaya, Lalea ) is the main town of the Laleia administrative office in the East Timorese municipality of Manatuto .
geography
Laleia is located in the north of Timor , just under 70 km as the crow flies east of the state capital Dili and just 17 km east of the municipal capital Manatuto . The place is located in the northeast of the administrative office of the same name, north of the river Heuc and west of the Rio de Laleia , on both sides of the border between the Sucos Lifau and Haturalan . On the Lifau side are the villages Lifau , Lenao and Uma-Rentau ( Uma Rentau ) , which are part of the settlement center . On the side of Haturalan lies the greater part of the settlement with the places Uma-Iuc ( Umaiuk ), Ralan ( Ranan ) and Weboro ( Beboro ). The center is at an altitude of 156 m . This is where the Laleia Administration Office is located, a community health center, a helipad, a pre-school, two elementary schools and a pre-secondary school. In 2014 the secondary school "Primeira Dama Kirsty Sword Gusmão " was inaugurated.
The well-developed northern coastal road, which runs a bit inland here, leads in the village over the Rio de Laleia and connects Laleia to the west with Manatuto and Dili and to the east with Vemasse , Baucau and Lautém .
history
The oldest traces of human settlement on Timor are between 43,000 and 44,000 years old as of 2017. They were discovered in the Laili cave near Laleia.
Laleia was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor, ruled by a liurai . It appears on a list by Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868.
Laleia provided arms to Portugal during the Cová rebellion in 1868 . In 1882 there was fighting between Vemasse and Laleia, for which the Portuguese commander of the military command was held responsible.
In 1975 the population fled the Indonesian invaders from Laleia to Natarbora . In the deserted place, the Indonesian army destroyed the food supplies. Deaths from hunger were the result. In 1976 the Laleia was a retreat for the FALINTIL , who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here she founded a base de apoio , a resistance base that offered refuge for refugees from Baucau, Manatuto and Viqueque . The base was later destroyed by the Indonesians. At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese in Lifau, who should be relocated by the occupiers for better control. Between 1970 and 1980, Laleia's population fell from 3,169 to 1,695.
City layout and buildings
Laleia is situated on a small plateau from which the valley of the Rio de Laleia can be seen. The center of the village is a square (northern border of the Sucos Haturalan), where the municipal administration, a few small shops and an older house in the typical Portuguese style with a hipped roof are located. A concrete memorial was erected on the square in memory of a massacre during Operation Donner in 1999, depicting a relief from East Timor on six human skulls.
A Catholic church already existed in Laleia in 1752. The current building is in the north (Suco Lifau), was planned from 1920, inaugurated in 1933 and is run by Capuchins . During the Japanese occupation of the Second World War , the church, whose towers offer an excellent view of the wide area and the valley of the Rio de Laleia, should be blown up for strategic reasons. At the instigation of two Japanese officers, the military commander Ono of the Manatuto district and Seargents Tanabe, who both campaigned for the preservation of the building, they limited themselves to a flattening of the two towers. The nave remained unchanged and was used as a troop kitchen and horse stable. During the Indonesian occupation, from 1976 onwards, military vehicles and artillery were stationed on the church grounds in order to be able to fire on Mount Lalini from here. The population had left the city and did not return until 1978. The church was only used again for church services from then on.
This summit cross over Laleia was erected in 1971
War memorial for the fallen FALINTIL fighters in Laleia
Laleia town center
Monument and administration building of the administration office
View from the town center to the Rio de Laleia
Personalities
- Xanana Gusmão (* 1946), freedom fighter and politician
- Domingos Francisco de Sousa (* 1947), freedom activist, author and diplomat
- Gabriel Soares (* 1971), politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jornal da República : Diploma Ministerial no 24/2014 de 24 de Julho - Orgânica dos Postos Administrativos ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Image of the dedication plaque ( memento from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hawkins, Stuart & O'Connor, Sue & Maloney, Tim & Litster, Mirani & Kealy, Shimona & N. Fenner, Jack & Aplin, Ken & Boulanger, Clara & Brockwell, Sally & Willan, Richard & Piotto, Elena & Louys , Julien: Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments , (2017). Quaternary Science Reviews. 171. 58-72. 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2017.07.008.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted 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)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 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; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ Lonely Planet: Timor-Leste, p. 60, Singapore 2011.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 1, 2017 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.
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .