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Portuguese Timor

noun

  1. a former name for East Timor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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

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.

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.

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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