Viqueque
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 51 ′ S , 126 ° 22 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
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| Administrative office | Viqueque | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-VI | ||
| Suco | Caraubalo , Uma Uain Craic , Uma Quic , Uai-Mori | ||
| height | 140 m | ||
| Residents | 6078 (2010) | ||
 Market street in Viqueque
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The East Timorese Viqueque ( tetum Vikeke , in old sources: Biquaque ) is the capital of the administrative office of the same name Viqueque and the municipality of Viqueque . The name is derived from the old name "We Keke" . We means "water", Keke "bracelet".
geography
The city is located in southeast Timor on the Cuha River , about 44 km as the crow flies directly south of Baucau and about 95 km southeast of the state capital Dili . The altitude is 140 m . On the road it is 183 km to Dili via Baucau. The center of the village is in Suco Caraubalo , but another row of villages and settlements surround the center, so that the settlement area extends into the sucos Uma Uain Craic , Uma Quic and Uai-Mori . There is a pre-school, four elementary schools, two pre-secondary schools and one secondary school ( Escola Secundaria Calissa ). The East Timor Institute of Business (IOB) runs parallel classes in Viqueque. There is also a police station , a community health center and two helipads, and an airfield in Uma Quic to the south. The modern building of the Church of the Immaculate Conception Viqueque ( Igreja da Imaculada Conceicao Viqueque in Portuguese ) was officially inaugurated on August 22, 2015. In the center is a stone column from the Indonesian occupation with the Indonesian coat of arms on top. The Radio Povo Viqueque has its broadcasting station outside the city on a hill. There is also a small library for young people here.
Residents
6,078 people live in Viqueque (2010).
history
Viqueque was originally a traditional kingdom Timor , which from a Liurai ruled. It appears on a list of Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in a list in 1868.
The Dominican Manuel de Santo António settled in the neighboring kingdom of Luca around 1700 and successfully converted the rulers of the region to Christianity, including Mateus da Costa , the Liurai of Viqueque. Viqueque became a key place for Bishop Manuel in his goal to Christianize Timor.
In 1708 the Portuguese governor Jácome de Morais Sarmento had Mateus da Costa arrested and humiliated him. The governor found the Liurai “too independent” and should be replaced. Domingos da Costa , the ruler of the Topasse , then besieged the colonial capital Lifau until Manuel de Santo António was able to persuade him to end in 1709. Governor Manuel de Souto-Maior , the successor to Morais Sarmento, rehabilitated Dom Mateus.
During the Cowa Rebellion in 1868 , Viqueque supported the Portuguese colonial rulers with their own troops.
From Uato-Lari , one of the last great rebellions against Portuguese colonial rule extended to neighboring areas in 1959 . About 1000 Timorese were killed during the Viqueque Rebellion . The leaders of the uprising were sent into exile in Africa. The rebellion was fueled by Indonesians who had found asylum in Portuguese Timor and then settled in Uato-Lari. It is not clear whether they were Indonesian separatists or agents.
In October 1986 the East Timorese FALINTIL , fighting against the Indonesian occupation, managed to occupy the city of Viqueque for three days.
On March 30, 2007 in Viqueque, after an election campaign event by Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta in the presidential elections, there were clashes between his supporters and supporters of the previously dominant FRETILIN party . 20 people were injured. It is not known who started.
On June 3, 2007, one of his supporters was shot dead by ex-President Xanana Gusmão during a campaign event for the 2007 parliamentary elections . The perpetrators were allegedly decommissioned members of the PNTL police . The region had already been the site of political clashes in the days before, as well as after Gusmão's assumption of office as prime minister on August 8th. Over 1500 people in what was then the sub-district fled their homes. The area around the city of Viqueque and Fatudere was a source of unrest. Refugees also came from Uato-Lari.
Town twinning
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suai Media Space: Koba Lima - Suai
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ 2015 IOB General Information , accessed June 12, 2017.
- ↑ 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; 509 kB)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2001 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.
- ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Artur Teodoro de Matos: D. Frei Manuel de Santo António: missionário e primeiro bispo residente em Timor. Elementos para a sua biografia (1660-1733) ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2013 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. (Portuguese).
- ↑ Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , p. 336, 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 , accessed on November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Hans Hägerdal: Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769 ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 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.
- ↑ Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512-1945) suivie des événements récents (1975-1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Australian Department of Defense, Patricia Dexter: Historical Analysis of Population Reactions to Stimuli - A case of East Timor ( Memento of September 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Frédéric B. Durand: History of Timor-Leste, p. 118, ISBN 9786162151248 .
- ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726-2008) , Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
- ↑ Internal Displacement Monitoring Center ( Memento of the original from September 24, 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; 464 kB)
- ^ Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .