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  Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi (30,777 km²).
Timor has older geology but lacks the volcanic nature of the Lesser Sunda Islands, together with a different main axis of the island these features have been explained as the result of being a northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate as it pushes into South East Asia.
Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, and the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timor   (527 words)

  
 Timor - LoveToKnow 1911
TIMOR, an island of the Malay Archipelago, the easternmost and largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands, stretching S.W. and N.E. for 300 m.
Timor lies in deep water a little to the west of the hundred fathom line, which marks in this direction the proper limit of the shallow Arafura Sea, extending between it and northern Australia.
Timor consists of a core of ancient rocks (Archean?) upon which rest Permian and later deposits of sedimentary origin.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Timor   (1306 words)

  
 Timor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timor (pronounced tee-mor') is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and Indonesia.
"Timor" is also the name of a protest song written by Colombian pop star Shakira, from her 2005 album Oral Fixation 2.
The Timor Pony is a breed originating from the Timor island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timor_(disambiguation)   (184 words)

  
 Timor
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Timor, together with the Lesser Sunda Islands to the northwest and the smaller islands to the northeast, is covered by tropical dry broadleaf forests.
According to local mythology, the island of Timor was a giant crocodile.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/t/ti/timor.html   (359 words)

  
 Timor info here at en.88of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
To the west-northwest of Timor are the islands of Flores & Alor, & to its northeast are the Barat Daya Islands, with Wetar.
Timor, calm with the Lesser Sunda Islands to the northwest & the smaller islands to the northeast, is camouflaged by tropical dry broadleaf forests.
Timor, the Barat Daya Islands, & the smaller islands to the northeast of Timor constitute the Timor & Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion.
en.88of100d.info /Timor   (691 words)

  
 Timor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Timor
Portugal established a colonial administration in Timor in 1702, but the claim was disputed by the Dutch, as well as by the Timorese, who frequently rebelled.
Timor was divided into West and East by treaties of 1859 and 1913 and subjected to Dutch and Portuguese control respectively; during World War II both parts were occupied by Japan.
East Timor (capital Dili), comprising an enclave on the northwest coast and the islands of Atauro and Jaco, was seized by Indonesia in 1975, and became the Indonesian province of Timor Timur the following year.
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 Timor - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi/ 30,777 km².
Following a referendum held in 1999, under a UN sponsored agreement between Indonesia and Portugal, in which its people rejected the offer of autonomy within Indonesia, East Timor achieved independence in 2002.
You can find it there under the keyword Timor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timorandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Timor   (427 words)

  
 Timor Definition / Timor Research
Timor is an islandAn island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water.
Although seldom adhered to, it is additionally proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of island.
Timor is the US Dollar which is the only currency that can be accepted as legal tender.
www.elresearch.com /Timor   (380 words)

  
 Darwin, Northern Territory - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Darwin is situated in the Northern Territory, on the coast of the Timor Sea at geographic coordinates.
Dili (East Timor) is 656 km from Darwin, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) is 1818 km, and Jakarta (Indonesia) is 2735 km from Darwin.
Darwin's importance as a port is forecasted to grow in the future, due in part to the increased exploitation of petroleum in the nearby Timor Sea, to the completion of the railway link and continued expansion of trade with Asia.
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 Timor
According to local mythology, the island of Timor was a giant crocodile.da:Timor de:Timor et:Timor es:Timor fr:Timor id:Timor ks:टिमोर nl:Timor no:Timor pl:Timor pt:Timor sa:टिमोर zh-min-nan:Timor
The Security Council set up a new UN mission for restive East Timor for at least six months to help restore security and steer the tiny Pacific territory toward next year's polls.
The Security Council set up a new UN mission for restive East Timor, including up to 1,608 police personnel, for at least six months to help restore security and help steer the tiny Pacific territory toward next year's polls.
www.paleorama.com /Lakes-T/Timor.php   (703 words)

  
 Articles - Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the world´s smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Australia´s neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
Surrounded by the Indian, Southern and Pacific oceans, Australia is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas.
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It consists 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 northwestern side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
Main article: History of East Timor The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the area, in the 16th century, and they established an isolated presence on the island of Timor, while the surrounding islands came under Dutch control.
To the north of the mountainous island are the Ombai Strait and Wetar Strait, to the south the Timor Sea separates the island from Australia, while to the west lies the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.
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 Asia - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Because in linguistic terms, "continent" implies a distinct landmass, it is becoming increasingly common to substitute the term "region" for "continent" to avoid the problem of disambiguation altogether.
In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively.
Christianity: Armenia, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Asia   (2835 words)

  
 Oceania - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The exact scope of Oceania is defined variously, with interpretations including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and East Timor.
For the oceans of the Earth, see Oceans.
Australia is the only continental country; by some definitions, East Timor and Papua New Guinea are the only countries with land borders, both with Indonesia.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Oceania   (720 words)

  
 Top 20 Asia
In Maritime Southeast Asia, the countries of Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia (some of the Indonesian islands also lie in the Melanesia region of Oceania).
East Timor (also Melanesian) is sometimes included too.
The country of Malaysia is divided in two by the South China Sea, and thus has both a mainland and island part.
www.top20asia.com   (1708 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
UN peacekeepers are sent to various regions where armed conflict has recently ceased, in order to enforce the terms of peace agreements and to discourage the combatants from resuming hostilities, for example in East Timor until its independence in 2001.
The UN has helped run elections in countries with little democratic history including recently in Afghanistan and East Timor.
The UN also runs international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTR, for the former YugoslaviaICTY, the Special Court for Sierra Leonne, and the Ad-Hoc Court for East Timor.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/United_Nations   (4195 words)

  
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Made contacts in search of resources: APC, Timor Aid, Freedom Forum, East Timor Action Network, East Timor International Support Center, and others.
Submitted conference paper on word-sense disambiguation using the EM algorithm.
Developed a standard test set of short French sentences from the Hansard corpus (101 sentences each of lengths 4, 5, 6,7, 8, and 9).
www.isi.edu /natural-language/projects/rewrite/research.html   (1787 words)

  
 TI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Look up TI, Ti, ti in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
This page disambiguates a two-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language.
If an article link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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