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PORTUGUESE TIMOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 990 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PORTUGUESE See also:

TIMOR
TIMOR (Timur i Leng, the lame Timur)

TIMOR includes the neighbouring isle of Pule Kambing,and has an See also:

AREA

area of about 7450 sq. m . Estimates of the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population vary from 300,000 to over See also:

HALF

half a million . Dilli, on the See also:

north See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, the administrative headquarters and See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

settlement, is a pgor little See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of some 3000 inhabitants, containing hardly any Europeans apart from the officials .

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