Vessoru
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| surface | 38.34 km² | ||
| population | 1,519 (2015) | ||
| Chefe de Suco | Ilidio Amaral (election 2009) |
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| Aldeias | Population (2015) | ||
| Baha-o | 243 | ||
| Bahabuga | 146 | ||
| Balabasiba | 294 | ||
| Culudere | 154 | ||
| Matau | 242 | ||
| Mauboro | 195 | ||
| Uani Uma | 245 | ||
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Vessoru ( Vessoro , Vessuro , Besoro ) is an East Timorese place and Suco in the administrative office of Uato-Lari ( municipality of Viqueque ).
The place
The place Vessoru is located in the south of the Sucos, at an altitude of 0 m , between the rivers Borouai and Oiqui . Here is the primary school of sucos, the Escola Primaria Vessoru . There is also a medical station here. Vessoru and Binita form a closed settlement.
The Suco
| Vessoru | ||
| places | position | height |
| Binita | 8 ° 47 ' S , 126 ° 38' E | 22 m |
| Burabuhae | 8 ° 43 ' S , 126 ° 38' E | 445 m |
| Daradobi | 8 ° 46 ' S , 126 ° 39' E | 1 m |
| Docoate | 8 ° 42 ' S , 126 ° 38' E | 877 m |
| Taradae | 8 ° 44 ' S , 126 ° 38' E | 304 m |
| Uaicai | 8 ° 42 ' S , 126 ° 37' E | 882 m |
| Vessoru | 8 ° 46 ' S , 126 ° 38' E | 0 m |
Vessoru has a population of 1519 (2015), of which 785 are men and 734 women. The population density is 39.6 inhabitants / km². There are 330 households in the Suco. Almost 99% of the population name Naueti as their mother tongue. A minority speaks Tetum Prasa .
Vessoru is to the east of the Uato-Lari administrative office. To the west is the Suco Babulo . In the east Vessoru borders on the administrative office Uatucarbau with its Sucos Afaloicai and Uani Uma and in the north on the administrative office Baguia with its Suco Afaloicai belonging to the municipality Baucau . In the south lies the Timor Sea . The western border river Borouai and the Qiqui, which flows across the Suco and is called Metauai in the upper reaches, flow into it. The Vessorus borders were not significantly changed during the 2015 regional reform. Before that, the Suco had an area of 39.25 km². Now there are 38.34 km².
The southern coastal road, one of the most important traffic routes in East Timor, runs through the south. The place Daradobi lies in the southeast of the Sucos . Along the eastern border are the places Taradae , Burabuhae ( Burabahae ), Docoate and Uaicai .
In the Suco there are the seven Aldeias Baha-o , Bahabuga , Balabasiba ( Balabaciba ), Culudere , Matau , Mauboro and Uani Uma .
history
There is only oral tradition of local pre-colonial history. In the Portuguese records , Vessoru does not appear until the end of the 17th century. In 1698 the Dominican Manuel de Santo António visited the empire. Babulo was probably a vassal of Vessoru, while Vessoru himself was under Luca in the 18th and 19th centuries. Vessoru supposedly ruled the coast from Beaco to Iliomar at that time . The Portuguese only established a permanent presence in the region in the 20th century.
According to legend, the inhabitants of Vessoru descend from a "younger brother" of Luca's kingdom . In the times when he arrived in the region, the Mane Hitu ( German Seven Brothers ) waged war against the empire of Builo . The brothers asked the ancestors of Vessoru to mediate a lasting peace and offered a piece of land to settle. According to sources from Babulo, the land was located between the Belia and Saqueto rivers in the west of today's Uato-Lari, far from Suco Vessoru. Vessoru never completely gave up his claim to the land, but the alliance was supposed to be secured by marriage. Nai Mesak, a representative of the Daralari from Babulo, was appointed as the bride and was expressly commissioned to guard the sources bee matan Saquato and bee matan Lobuto . She became the guardian of the water ( tetum bee nain , naueti : wai bu'u ). This task was passed on from the mother to her sons and their descendants. The ruler of Vessoru is therefore said to have a special power over the creatures of the water, in particular eels and crocodiles. When Liurai Humberto died in 2004, four crocodiles are said to have appeared in the stream near his house and mourned for four days.
In mythology, the “younger brother of Luca” becomes the king of the underworld (liurai rai oos) and the Daralari woman the “eldest sister” or “daughter” of Mane Hitu. Nai Mesak went to the source of the Belia to fetch water. Back at home, she noticed that she had lost her hairpin (ikan modok) . When she was looking for the needle at the source, legend has it that a green and yellow fish appeared and asked her what she was looking for. Nai Mesak replied, "I'm looking for my hairpin". The fish replied, "The needle is in the water," whereupon Nai Mesak disappeared into the water and went into the underworld. Her servants searched for her all day, but could not find her. That night one of the servants dreamed of the search and found Nai Mesak at the side of the king of the underworld as his queen. The king said to the servant, “Your king and Nai Mesak cannot return. go and tell your Liurai to build a buffalo enclosure. ”When he woke up, the servant reported to his Liurai. It was with great sadness that, as ordered, they built the enclosure for seven days, which was called Tapalu . Then in the night a water buffalo appeared from the spring, followed by more red, black and striped ( makerek , German colorful ) buffalo. The last buffalo wore a gold disc ( Belak ) , glass beads (Morten) and a sword ( Surik ) on its horns. The Liurai recognized the gifts as sufficient for his sister and stopped the flow with a stick. A settlement was established there. The legend is reflected in derivations of the relationship between Luca and other empires along the south coast of Timor and in the Baucau / Viqueque region. The covenants were strengthened with water as a medium and marriage.
According to colonial records, the kingdom of Babulo the Naueti was the dominant power in the region, conflicting with Builo in the northwest. The Portuguese colonial power finally sent Tomás dos Reis Amaral, a descendant of the ruling family of Luca, as ruler of Uaitame and Vessoru in the mid-1910s, and placed him hierarchically above the ruler of Babulo as administrator of Uato-Lari. The ruler from Luca put an end to the conflict.
At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp in Vessoru for East Timorese who were supposed to be relocated by the occupiers for better control.
politics
In the 2004/2005 elections , Domingos MF was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections , Ilidio Amaral won .
Web links
- Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Vessoru ( tetum ; PDF; 8.4 MB)
- Results of the 2015 census for the Suco Vessoru (tetum; PDF;)
- Seeds of Life: Suco information sheets Uato-Lari (tetum)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
- ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
- ↑ a b UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2011 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; 509 kB)
- ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
- ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Vessoru ( tetum ; PDF; 8.4 MB)
- ↑ a b Timor-Leste GIS Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 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. (2010 census; PDF; 22.6 MB)
- ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
- ↑ a b c d Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , pp. 340ff., 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 , accessed on November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Susana Barnes: Origins, Precedence and Social Order in the Domain of Ina Ama Beli Darlari , In: Land and life in Timor-Leste, pp. 29 & 32.
- ↑ "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. (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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