Tokodede
The Tokodede ( Tocodede, Tukude, Tokodé, Tocod ) are an ethnolinguistic group in East Timor . Their center is the municipality of Liquiçá , where they form the absolute majority of the population in the administrative offices of Liquiçá and Maubara . Their language is also called Tokodede . It is spoken by 46,784 East Timorese as their mother tongue (2015 census).
history
Antonio Pigafetta reported in 1522 of four main kings in Timor, one of whom ruled the kingdom of Lichisana ( Likusaen ). This is equated with Liquiçá and is said to have paid tribute to Wehale , which was further south. Likusaen had its center in the area of the Tokodede and the Kemak, linguistically close to them, and also had an influence on the Bunak who lived south of them . In 1667 Maubara allied itself with the Dutch , who built a fort here in 1756 . In the Treaty of Lisbon in 1859, the Dutch agreed to cede Maubara to the Portuguese as part of a major exchange of territory . The surrender took place in April 1861. Revolts against the Portuguese in the 19th century were put down.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
- ↑ Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor, ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) p. 17, Technical University of Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB).
- ↑ Antoinette Schapper: Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor ( Memento of October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), p. 169, in: Andrew McWilliam, Elizabeth G. Traube: Land and Life in Timor-Leste : Ethnographic Essays , 2011.
- ↑ Schapper: Finding Bunaq , p. 170.
