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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. Timor was...
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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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    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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    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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    Dili became the capital of the Portuguese colonial possessions in the Lesser Sunda Islands in 1769. Today, Dili is the capital of East Timor. According...
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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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