Portuguese Timor

Portuguese Timor was the Lisbon colony on half an island, ruling the east of Timor from Dili from 1702 to 1975. The Portuguese came in 1515 for sandalwood, Dominicans followed in 1556, Lifau in the Oecusse exclave aided its queen in 1641 and planted maize, moving there after the Dutch came in 1652, and the island entered the India-China trading web while the colony shared Timor town by town with the Dutch. Declared in 1702, it ticked through the centuries as the empire's remotest flag, 1725 rebels of fifteen kingdoms fought to Cailaco in 1726, Dili governors died in the troubles, thirty percent Catholic by 1974 under tribal chiefs, 1725 rebels of fifteen kingdoms fought to Cailaco in 1726, Dili governors died in the troubles, thirty percent Catholic by 1974 under tribal chiefs, until Lisbon's Carnation Revolution uncorked civil war in 1975, Indonesia invaded, the UN refused the conquest, and after a UN transition the east became Timor-Leste in 2002.