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| Who cares what the State Department of ''a foreign power'' thinks? The name of the country is Timor |
Who cares what the State Department of ''a foreign power'' thinks? The name of the country is Timor Leste. I'm putting it where it belongs. ] 10:07, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC) | ||
| :I was wondering why was the article on East Timor renamed to Timor Leste? Has the country changed its name recently or should it always have been Timor Leste? Is Timor Leste, Portuguese for East Timor or does the name have another origin? I have only every heard the country called East Timor. -- ] 11:14, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC) | :I was wondering why was the article on East Timor renamed to Timor Leste? Has the country changed its name recently or should it always have been Timor Leste? Is Timor Leste, Portuguese for East Timor or does the name have another origin? I have only every heard the country called East Timor. -- ] 11:14, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC) | ||
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| Its like the Ivory Coast which is refered to as ]. - fonzy | Its like the Ivory Coast which is refered to as ]. - fonzy | ||
| The difference is I can type "Timor Leste" on a computer keyboard without giving myself a headache! :) ] | |||
Revision as of 11:24, 12 September 2003
Will the page be replaced when East Timor has an entry in the CIA World Factbook?
- Effected. - Montréalais
Moved talk relating to Timorese history to Talk:History of East Timor. - Montréalais
what happened to all the old information in the article - some of which was more detailed than the CIA Factbook entry?
I moved it to History of East Timor. - Montréalais
Shouldn't this really be moved to Timor Leste.? -fonzy
- I am in the process of writing to the State Department as if they use East Timor or Timor Leste to refer to the State. Depending on what I get back from them, Let's move the page then. - hoshie
Who wrote this incredible piece of text? Due to her potential submarine oil fields, the tiny country currently runs the risk of becoming a puppet state like Panama and the Republic of Texas. Some even think that petroleum made the Western countries, especially Australia and the U.S., separate East Timor from Indonesia. I'm still laughing about the puppet state of Republic of Texas. Cheers! User:Marco Neves
Who cares what the State Department of a foreign power thinks? The name of the country is Timor Leste. I'm putting it where it belongs. Tannin 10:07, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I was wondering why was the article on East Timor renamed to Timor Leste? Has the country changed its name recently or should it always have been Timor Leste? Is Timor Leste, Portuguese for East Timor or does the name have another origin? I have only every heard the country called East Timor. -- Popsracer 11:14, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Its how the country prefers to be referd. "Timor joined the United Nations in 2002, it decided to be officially referred to by its Portuguese name, Timor Leste, as opposed to its English name."
Its like the Ivory Coast which is refered to as Côte d'Ivoire. - fonzy
The difference is I can type "Timor Leste" on a computer keyboard without giving myself a headache! :) Tannin