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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1999, Sept. 20 | |
| Portugal urged the UN to send peacekeeping forces into its former colonial territory of East Timor when Indonesian forces wreaked havoc in the recently independent state. | 1 |
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| Portugal returned rulership of Macao to China after 442 years of colonial dominion over the island nation. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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