Sarau (East Timor)

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Sarau (East Timor)
Sarau
Sarau
Location in East Timor

Sarau (also Sarão , Sarao , Saran ) was a traditional empire in what is now the East Timorese community of Lautém . It was near the current place Lautém in Malailada , on the banks of the river of the same name . The residents belonged to the Fataluku ethnic group .

history

In the 1730s, Sarau rebelled against the Portuguese colonial rulers. Governor Pedro de Rego Barreto da Gama e Castro then took action against the empire.

In 1847, Buginese pirates or slave hunters probably attacked Sama in what is now Lautém, which was not unusual at that time. Governor Julião José da Silva Vieira (1844 to 1848) sent a military expedition, which was initially defeated by the pirates. For another four and a half months, the 70 Buginese managed to fight off a siege by 3,000 warriors who had drawn the local rulers together. Sarau was suspected of having worked with the Buginese, which is why Governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima (1851 to 1852) sent a punitive expedition against Dom Mateus , the Liurai of Sarau. The retaliatory action over eight months, in which the gunboat Mondego was also used, ultimately brought in compensation of 2,000 rupees. The heads of the fallen opponents were brought back to Dili and displayed at the Likurai dance . The Timorese tradition was used again and again by the Portuguese in the following years with rebels.

In 1860 Sarau was assigned to the Lautém military command by Governor Afonso de Castro . He also includes Sarau in his list of the empires of Timor from 1868. In 1867 Sarau officially formed an alliance with Portugal.

See also

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andrew McWilliam: Harboring Traditions in East Timor: Marginality in a Lowland Entrepˆot ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 373 kB)
  2. ↑ Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512-1945) suivie des événements récents (1975-1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
  3. ^ History of Timor, page 55
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of November 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ History of Timor, page 85

Coordinates: 8 ° 26 ′ 40 ″  S , 126 ° 53 ′ 45 ″  E