UN Transitional Administration in East Timor

UN Transitional Administration in East Timor was a colony in Java and Eastern Indonesia (Southeast Asia) that lasted from 1999 to 2002 CE, about 3 years. The timeline colours it by the language of its rulers: Austronesian (Malay, Javanese, Cham, Tagalog, Malagasy, Polynesian, Maori).

Set up by Security Council Resolution 1272 on 25 October 1999, after the East Timor Special Autonomy Referendum. It ran an interim civil administration and a peacekeeping mission until East Timor's independence on 20 May 2002.

See UN Transitional Administration in East Timor on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

1999 to 2002 CE

Duration

3 years

Type

Colony

Region

Java and Eastern Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Language of its rulers

Austronesian

Sources

The dates and description above were checked against Wikipedia: United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.

Came from

• Indonesian occupation of East Timor 1975 to 1999 CE

Became

• Timor-Leste 2002 CE to the present

Neighbours in Southeast Asia

• Indonesia 1945 CE to the present
• Thailand 1932 CE to the present
• Philippines 1946 CE to the present
• Myanmar (Burma) 1948 CE to the present
• Malaysia 1963 CE to the present
• Singapore 1965 CE to the present
• Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1976 CE to the present
• Lao People's Democratic Republic 1975 CE to the present
• Brunei 1984 CE to the present
• Kingdom of Cambodia 1993 CE to the present

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999 CE, Europe
• United States 1776 CE to the present, North America
• United Kingdom 1801 CE to the present, Europe
• Haiti 1804 CE to the present, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Commonwealth of Australia 1901 CE to the present, Oceania
• Republic of India 1947 CE to the present, South Asia
• People's Republic of China 1949 CE to the present, East Asia
• South Africa 1994 CE to the present, Central and Southern Africa

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