East Timor stamps
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Timor
is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago. The name is a variant
of timur, Malay for "east"; it is so called because it is at the east end of a chain of
islands.
East
Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or 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 on the northwestern
side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor. The small country of 14,609
square kilometres is located about 640 km
northwest of Darwin, Australia.
Colonized
by Portugal
in the sixteenth century, East Timor was
known as Portuguese Timor for centuries. It was
invaded by Indonesia in
1975, which occupied it until 1999. Following the UN sponsored act of self-determination
that year, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory and East Timor
became the first new country of the twenty-first century on May 20, 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor
Scott: #278P
Issued: 3.10.1953
Centenary of Portugese Stamps
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#278: Portugal #1P (Portugal)
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