Lautém
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 23 ' S , 126 ° 54' E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
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| Administrative office | Lautém | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-LA | ||
| Suco | Pairara | ||
| height | 16 m | ||
| Residents | 3157 (2006) | ||
 Lautém
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Lautém ( tetum Lautein ) is an East Timorese place in the Lautém administrative office . The municipality Lautém , whose capital Lautém used to be, is named after the place . In 1946 the administrative headquarters were moved to Lospalos .
Surname
The place name is derived from the Fataluku words lau ( cloth ) and tein ( holy ), which means the name roughly means holy cloth . Other common spellings for the place name are: Lautaim, Lautain and Lauten . In 1936, Lautém was renamed Vila Nova de Malaca by the Portuguese . But the name did not catch on and a few years after the Second World War , the old name was reverted to.
Geography and inhabitants
Lautém is located in Suco Pairara on the north coast of the municipality of the same name, in the far east of the island of Timor . This is where the main road that comes from the inland municipality capital Lospalos meets the northern coastal road that leads from Com , via the state capital Dili to the Indonesian border at Batugade . Lautém is about 170 km east of Dili and 20 km north of Lospalos, although the road to Lospalos is much longer due to the mountainous landscape. Lautém has 3157 inhabitants (2006), making it the second largest town in the municipality after Lospalos.
Lautém climate diagram
history
Cave drawings that are thought to be several thousand years old have been found near Lautém. An exact dating has not yet been carried out.
A holdover from the colonial era is a Portuguese residence from the 18th or 19th century, surrounded by gardens with fountains. In addition, a former church, buildings for the servants and barracks stand on the hill. From here you can see as far as the Banda Sea. The area is surrounded by a wall in which you can still see the loopholes for the cannons. The Japanese occupiers during the Second World War also left their mark on the residence.
On February 7, 1944 bombing 14 B-24 of the Australian Air Force , the Japanese in loud.
After East Timor's declaration of independence in 1975, Indonesia began a large-scale invasion of the neighboring country. Until October 1976, the place Lautém and the connecting road to Lospalos were under Indonesian control, but it was not until 1977 that East Timor was also occupied in the area.
During the Indonesian Operation Donner all public facilities were destroyed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernest Chamberlain, The Memorial at the Bebui River , p. 18 , accessed February 24, 2013
- ^ João Soares: Novo Atlas Escolar Português , 5th updated edition, Lisboa 1954
- ↑ Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). September 2014.
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances" (PDF; 2.5 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)