Portuguese Timor

noun

1. a former name for East Timor

Example Sentences

A high-level Portuguese envoy headed for the war-torn colony of Portuguese Timor in the Indonesian archipelago last week following talks with Indonesian government officials on ways to end the fighting.

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Portuguese Timor, a part of a small island north of Australia, is thinking of joining Indonesia, which already holds the rest of the island.

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Though the economy is underdeveloped, Salazar has clung grimly to an increasingly costly empire; its colonies extend as far as Macao on the Chinese coast and Portuguese Timor in the East Indies.

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To the northwest they go to Dairen, Mukden and Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand.

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Japan forcibly occupied Portuguese Timor in the Pacific, and is reported to be exercising illegal military control over the colony of Macao on the China coast.

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