EastTimor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or Timor-Leste (Malay: Timor, East, Portuguese: Leste, East), 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.
In late 1941, Portuguese Timor was briefly occupied by Dutch and Australian troops in an attempt to pre-empt a Japanese invasion of the island.
Timor Sea petroleum resources were divided between Indonesia and Australia by the Timor Gap Treaty in 1989 [16] which established guidelines for joint exploitation of seabed resources in the area of the "gap" left by then-Portuguese Timor in the maritime boundary agreed between the two countries in 1972.
Feeds |
Contact