Pante Macassar
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 12 ′ S , 124 ° 23 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Oe-Cusse Ambeno | |||
| Administrative office | Pante Macassar | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-OE | ||
| Suco | Costa | ||
| height | 189 m | ||
| Residents | 8793 (2010) | ||
.jpg) View of the center of Pante Macassar
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Pante Macassar (Pante Makassar, Oecussi, tetum Pante Makasar ) is the capital of the East Timorese exclave Oe-Cusse Ambeno in the western part of Timor and the administrative office of the same name Pante Macassar .
Surname
Pante Macassar, literally means Macassar Beach , an allusion to the Makassar traders on the island of Sulawesi ( Celebes ), who in earlier centuries settled here seasonally while waiting for the right winds to return home. From 1936 until shortly after the Second World War, the place was called Vila Taveiro . Pante Macassar is also known locally as Oecussi ( also Ocussi ), which literally means water jug , after one of the two traditional kingdoms from which the Oe-Cusse Ambeno Special Administrative Region was formed.
geography
Pante Macassar is located on the Sawu Sea in Suco Costa , 281 km west of Dili , near the north coast of the island, at 189 m above sea level .
Today the center of the city consists of little more than half a dozen rows of houses close to the beach with crystal clear water, surrounded by palm trees. Other places border directly on Pante Macassar and line the coast. There is no television, crime is almost unknown. The only radio station only works intermittently, electricity is only available for five hours during the night. Twice a week the ferry Berlin Nakroma runs from Dili in a twelve-hour journey to Pante Macassar. The Oecusse Airport is 4.5 km west of the center.
In Pante Macassar and the neighboring settlements there is a bank branch, two pre-schools, five elementary schools, two schools for preparation for secondary school, three secondary schools, a port, a helipad, a hospital and a police station . The old Portuguese fortress of Fatusuba towers above the town.
Tomorrow in Pante Macassar
Convento das Missionarias Dominicanas da Na. Sra. do Rosario
Residents
Pante Macassar has 8,793 inhabitants (as of 2010).
history
On the coast near Pante Macassar is Oesono , where the kingdom of Oecussi was based. The empire was ruled by Topasse . The topasses were descendants of Portuguese soldiers, sailors and traders who married women from Solor . They decisively determined the developments on Timor in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6 km west of the modern town of Pante Macassar founded Dominicans in 1556 to secure the Sandelholzhandels place Lifau . From 1702 on, Lifau was the administrative seat of Portuguese Timor until it was moved to Dili in 1769.
In May 1912, during the great Manufahi rebellion , there was also an uprising against the colonial rulers in Oecussi. With the support of the gunboat Pátria , the uprising was put down.
In the turmoil of the final months of Portuguese rule over East Timor, Indonesia occupied Oe-Cusse Ambeno on June 6, 1975. When FRETILIN finally declared East Timor independent from Portugal on November 28, 1975, the next day the Indonesian flag in Pante Macassar set. The invasion of the rest of East Timor began on December 7, 1975.
During the Indonesian Operation Donner , which followed the independence referendum , Pante Macassar was the target of pro-Indonesian militias , supported by the Indonesian military. 65 civilians who supported independence were hanged, Pante Macassar burned down except for two churches.
Personalities
- Gerrit van Raalten (1797–1829), Dutch taxidermist and draftsman, died at sea before Pante Macassar and was buried here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
- ↑ Miokrofinance Pasifika - INFUSE: Map of Financial Service Access Points in Timor-Leste as of December 31, 2009 ( Memento of May 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 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; 401 kB)
- ^ Colonial Voyage: Asia. Portuguese Colonial Remains 16th – 18th centuries , accessed January 6, 2015.
- ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Preliminary Result of Census 2010 English ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2014 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; 3.2 MB)
- ^ Geoffrey Hull: The Languages of East Timor - Some Basic Facts. ( Memento of the original from October 1, 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. Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e, 2002 (PDF file). Retrieved June 17, 2014.
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Nations Encyclopedia
- ↑ CAVR-Report: 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. (English; PDF; 1.3 MB)
