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Manatuto
Population : 38,580
Area : 1,706 km²
Manatuto is one of the districts of East Timor, located
in the central part of the country. It reaches both the south and north
coasts of the island, and is only one of two districts to do so (the
other is Lautem in the far east). To the north is the Strait of Wetar,
to the south is the Timor Sea. The district borders the districts of
Baucau and Viqueque to the east and Manufahi, Aileu, and Dili to the
west.
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The Portuguese began to trade with the island of Timor in the early
16th century and colonized it in mid-century. Skirmishing with the
Dutch in the region eventually resulted in an 1859 treaty in which
Portugal ceded the western portion of th
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