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  East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor on the northwestern side of the island, surrounded by Indonesian West Timor.
Timor Sea petroleum resources were divided between Indonesia and Australia by the Timor Gap Treaty in 1989,[11] which established guidelines for joint exploitation of seabed resources in the area of the "gap" left by then-Portuguese Timor in the maritime boundary agreed between the two countries in 1972.
East Timor is a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, and a member of the Latin Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Timor   (3418 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor is a nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
East Timor inherited no permanent maritime boundaries when it attained independence, and the Government of East Timor is seeking to negotiate a boundary with Australia halfway between it and Australia.
The people of East Timor, known collectively as the Maubere, an originally derogatory name turned into a name of pride by the resistance movement, consist of a number of distinct ethnic groups, most of whom are of Malayo-Polynesian descent and some of older Papuan stock.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /East_Timor   (2939 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- East Timor
A campaign of pacification followed over the next two decades, during which an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 individuals lost their lives.
On 30 August 1999, in a UN-supervised popular referendum, the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia.
the Popular Council for the Defense of the Democratic Republic of East Timor or CPD-RDTL is the largest political pressure group; it rejects the current government and claims to be the rightful government; it is led by Cristiano DA COSTA, a.k.a.
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