Maumere
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 37 ′ S , 122 ° 12 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Nusa Tenggara | ||
| province | Nusa Tenggara Timur | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-NT | ||
| Administrative district | Sikka | ||
| Residents | 70,000 (1992) | ||
 Jesus statue in Maumere
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Maumere is the commercial center and the largest city on the Indonesian island of Flores . The city has 70,000 inhabitants (1992).
geography
Maumere is located on the north coast of the island on the Floresee and is the capital of the administrative district of Sikka .
traffic
The port is located in the northwest part of the city. The Wai Oti Airport is by Merpati Nusantara Airlines and Pelita Air Service approached.
history
The Portuguese founded a base here, but it was soon only nominally under their control. In fact, the Sica were in control, a mixed Portuguese-indigenous population who built a small empire here. Some of them moved to Timor in 1851 , where they formed an important part of the Portuguese colonial forces.
In 1851, the Portuguese governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima sold Maumere and other areas on the Lesser Sunda Islands , which were under Portuguese sovereignty, to the Netherlands for 200,000 florins without authorization from Lisbon . Lisbon did not recognize the sale and had Lopes arrested. He died on the way back to Europe. From 1854 the agreements were renegotiated. The sale was finally confirmed in the Lisbon Treaty . The ratification took place in 1859. According to the treaty, the population could keep their Catholic faith. But the Dutch never took internal control of the empire. Until the end of the 19th century, the native Rajas even set the Portuguese flag . Dom Sentia da Silva , the last Catholic Raja of Sikka, did not give up his political power until Indonesia's independence .
The Floresquake of December 12, 1992 destroyed 90% of the city's buildings. 1490 people died in Maumere as a result of the quake and the subsequent tsunami.
On December 14, 2005, the Catholic diocese of Maumere was founded.
Surroundings
The reefs around Maumere ( Gulf of Maumere ) were once one of the most beautiful diving areas in the world. However, in 2007 it was reported that 75% of the corals were significantly damaged. Reasons for this were dynamite fishing , fishing with poison and earthquakes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Timor ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Lisbon Technical University (PDF file; 805 kB)
- ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination 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).
- ↑ Significant Earthquakes of the World in 1992 ( Memento of the original from September 12, 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. United States Geological Survey , accessed July 2, 2016.
