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Fort Santo António of Lifau

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Fort Santo António of Lifau
Fort Santo António of Lifau. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fort Santo António de Lifau was a Portuguese fort once built by the mouth of the Tono River, in Lifau, district of Oecusse, in East-Timor, the first fort built by the Portuguese Crown, where only forts maintained by Dominican missionaries and Portuguese merchants previously existed.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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