pang
in 1749 but were smashingly defeated,
and subsequently moved their residence to
Pante
Macassar
(Oecusse) in 1759 due to
Dutch military pressure. The capital of the governor was transferred from Lifau
to
Dili
in 1769, because of the frequent
attacks from the Topass leader
Francisco
Hornay III. Most of
West Timor
was left to
Dutch
forces, who were conquering what is
today
Indonesia. The Eurasian
leadership of Oecusse by and by turned into a Timorese kingship, and members of
the Hornay and Da Costa families reigned as
Liurai
(kings) until modern times. They
regularly intermarried with the Ambeno royalty. In the 1780s a reconciliation
took place between the governor in Dili and the Topasses, who henceforth
usually supported the Portuguese government.
In 1859, with the Treaty of Lisbon, Portugal and the Netherlands divided the island between them.West
Timor
