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from there as well, forcing the remnants to move to either Dutch Batavia or Portuguese-controlled Timor and the Solor Archipelago. Portuguese presence in the region had started since 1520 when they established Lifau, and was largely represented by the Topasses - "black Portuguese" consisting of mixed European-Asian descendants, freed slaves known as Mardijkers,

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