NOUN | location | East Timor | a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976 |
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Meaning | A former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation. | |
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Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
Part of | Southeast Asia | A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore |
Timor | An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago | |
Spanish | Timor Leste, Timor, Timor Oriental | |
Catalan | Timor Leste, Timor, Timor Oriental |
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