Sika people

The Sica (also Sika ) are an ethnic group with about 180,000 members from eastern Indonesian island of Flores, where they formerly ruled the Kingdom of Sikka. They speak a Malay language, the Sika.

Sica on Timor

A group of mestizos from Sica and Europeans settled in 1851 as a voluntary recruits from the Kingdom of Sikka to Dili in Portuguese Timor on. This year, the Portuguese governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima had a contract with the Netherlands closed by the Little Sunda Islands, he ceded the west of Timor, the island of Flores and other areas of them. This agreement was confirmed by the Treaty of Lisbon in 1859. The Sica formed in addition to the Bidau and Moradores one of the three parts that make up the Portuguese armed forces of the colony formed. All three ethnic groups lived in separate neighborhoods of the capital. Languages ​​they originally nor its Malay language, it later switched to a Creole Portuguese. Meanwhile, they have been merged into the population and do not form their own group more.

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