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    the capital Dili. The crisis prompted a military intervention by several other countries and led to the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. A...
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    Mari bin Amude Alkatiri GCIH (Arabic: مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري Mar'ī bin Amūdah al-Kaṯīrī; born 26 November 1949) is a Timorese politician. He was Prime Minister...
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    Tetum language (redirect from Tetun Dili)
    Tetum/n Dili (given its widespread usage in the capital Dili). This is the form of Tetum (heavily influenced by Portuguese) that developed in Dili during...
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    The Port of Dili (Portuguese: Porto de Díli, Tetum: Portu Díli) is a seaport in Dili, East Timor. Prior to 30 September 2022, it was the main and only...
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    Timor Sea. The country's size is 14,950 square kilometres (5,770 sq mi). Dili - on the north coast of Timor - is its capital and largest city. East Timor...
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  • Airport formerly known as Comoro Airport, is situated in Dili and 6 kilometres west of Dili city centre. The airport serves as the main international...
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    being shot in the stomach on 31 December 1978 and his body was brought to Dili to be inspected by Indonesian press. What then happened to his body is unknown...
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    His family were assimilados. He attended a Jesuit high school just outside Dili. After leaving high-school for financial reasons in 1961, at the age of 15...
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    Ramos Horta's decision as unconstitutional, and angry Fretilin supporters in Dili immediately reacted to Ramos-Horta's announcement with violent protests....
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    The history of Dili begins with the arrival of the first Portuguese in the Bay of Dili in 1520, but it was not until 250 years later that the settlement...
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    José Ramos-Horta (category People from Dili)
    was re-elected to the presidency in 2022. Ramos-Horta was born in 1949 in Dili, capital of East Timor. He is of Mestiço ethnicity, born to Portuguese father...
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    the country to go to Malaysia for heart surgery resulting in a standoff at Dili Airport. In 2008 president José Ramos-Horta reduced Lobato's jail sentence...
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    people from Lifau to what would become Dili. The control of colonial administrators, largely restricted to Dili, had to rely on traditional tribal chieftains...
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    Timor was divided into thirteen districts: Lautém Baucau Viqueque Manatuto Dili Aileu Manufahi Liquiçá Ermera Ainaro Bobonaro Cova Lima Oecusse Each district...
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  • Mari Gerekmezyan (Armenian: Մարի Կերեքմէզեան; 1913–1947) was one of Turkey's first female sculptors and the first female Armenian sculptor. She was the...
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    Doves. In 1974 and 1975, TAT was flying scheduled domestic services from Dili to Oecusse. As of the mid-1990s, an Indonesian State-owned airline, Merpati...
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  • and unemployed youths demonstrating in the streets of Dili. He asserted that the Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri had given the order to fire into the crowd...
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    Notícias (Lusa): O estafeta que tratou a guerrilha e agora chefia o governo de Díli, retrieved, 13 February 2015. University of Otago Magazine, Issue 4, 2003...
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    war, the pro-independence Fretilin declared victory in the capital city of Dili and declared an independent East Timor on 28 November 1975. Following the...
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    the population is Catholic. The country is divided into three dioceses; Dili, Maliana and Baucau, all of which are immediately subject to the Holy See...
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    of East Timor 5:55–78. (In Tetun Dili.) da Silva, Eng. Guilherme ‘Puru-Berliku’. 2012. Disionáriu Wekais-Tetun. Dili: Secretaria de Estado da Cultura...
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    military pressure. The capital of the governor was transferred from Lifau to Dili in 1769, because of the frequent attacks from the Topass leader Francisco...
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    Solidarity under the VII Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Mari Alkatiri. Previously, between 2012 and 2017, she was a member of the National...
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    Alberto Ricardo da Silva (category Roman Catholic bishops of Dili)
    bishop of Dili, East Timor. He was born in Aileu, in East Timor when it was still a Portuguese colony. He studied in the minor seminary of Dili and was...
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    room adjacent to the East Timor (Timor-Leste) Prime Minister's Office at Dili, to obtain information in order to ensure Australia held the upper hand in...
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    Administration under the VII Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Mari Alkatiri. Previously, between 2005 and 2007, he was the Vice Minister for...
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    combatant, he participated in battles against the Indonesian military in Dili, Aileu, Maubisse, Ossu, Venilale, Uatulari and finally in Laga on the northeastern...
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    time and by 1998 included all East Timorese political parties. The 1991 Dili Massacre, which was recorded on video and was widely reported to have killed...
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    of Dili, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri requested that the F-FDTL help restore order. Troops with no experience in crowd control were deployed to Dili on...
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    Guido Valadares National Hospital (category Buildings and structures in Dili)
    formerly Dili National Hospital, is the national hospital of East Timor. It is located in Culu Hun [de], on the eastern edge of the capital city of Dili. The...
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