Malaka Regency
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The Indonesian government district ( kabupaten ) of Malacca is located on the south coast of the island of Timor. It belongs to the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Malaka was cleaved from the administrative district of Belu on December 14, 2012.
Geography
Malaka is the twelve districts ( Kecamatan ) messenger Leobele, Io Kufeu, Kobalima, Kobalima Timur, Laen Manen, Malaka Barat, Malaka Tengah, Malaka Timur, Rinhat, Sasita Mean, Weliman and Wewiku. These are divided (villages ) in 127 Kelurahan.
Malaka forms the south-eastern part of the Indonesian West Timor. In the east it borders the state of East Timor belonging to the district of Cova Lima, on the north by the administrative district of Belu and to the west by the government districts Südzentraltimor and North Central Timor. The total area is 1160.63 km ². The main town is Betun in Kecamatan Malaka Tengah.
Population
In Malaka 186 622 people live. In their majority they are among the ethnic groups of Tetum and Bunak that otherwise mostly live in neighboring East Timor.
History
In the territory of Malacca lie with laran and Wewiku the centers of the old Kingdom of Wehale, which was the cultural and religious center Timor earlier.
Antonio Pigafetta, a member of the Magellan Expedition, Timor briefly visited in 1522, he reported from four main kings of Timor who were brothers. Oibich, Lichisana, Suai and Canabaza. Oibich was the captain of the four. Oibich could assign Wewiku, which is referred to in later sources as a base Wehales. Suai is the capital of present-day East Timorese district of Cova Lima and formed probably with Camenaça ( Kamenasa, Canabaza, also Camenaça or Came Aces) a double kingdom. Lichisana is equated with Liquiçá. Since Lichisana and Suai - Canabaza Wehale were tributary and all these kingdoms were in the center and east of Timor, they were by the Portuguese later as a province of Belu (also: Belus or Behale ) summarized. Iron was known, but there was no writing in use. The population operating traditional, animistic practices.
On May 26, 1641 Portuguese commander Francisco Fernandes defeated a force of Liurais of Wehale on the border with Mena. The Portuguese then began under Fernandes with a large-scale military action to extend its control over the island's interior. The preceding Christianization supported the Portuguese in their fast and brutal victory because their influence had already weakened the resistance to the Timorese. Fernandes led the campaign through with only 90 Portuguese musketeers. But he was supported by many Timorese warriors. He first moved through the area and captured by Sonba'i to 1642, the Kingdom Wehale, which was considered a religious and political center of the island.
When in 1749 a Portuguese attack on the Dutch possession Kupang ended in disaster, broke the Portuguese rule together in West Timor. Much of the regional rulers forge agreements in 1756 with the Dutch East India Company. Including a Jacinto Correa, King of Wewiku - Wehale and Grand Duke of Belu, of the dubious Treaty of Paravicini also signed on behalf of many areas in central Timor, including for Wewiku, which still belonged to the sphere of influence Wehales. The area was at least nominally under Dutch hegemony. Until 1906, the area of Wehale was finally integrated into the colonial structure of the Dutch, the local rulers remained. Tamira Ailala came only after the final border demarcation in 1916 to West Timor.