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Chinese cemetery of Dili

cemetery in Dill, Timor-Leste

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ25379124 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chinese cemetery of Dili is a historical cemetery in Dili, Timor-Leste. Built in 1889 on land donated by the then Portuguese government, the oldest graves date back to the early 20th century.

In 2015, the cemetery had about 1,400 tombs and was still maintained by the local Chinese community.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chinese cemetery of Dili” is cemetery in Dill, Timor-Leste. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chinese, cemetery and Dili, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chinese, cemetery and Dili is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “cemetery in Dill, Timor-Leste” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25379124. Authority coordinates are -8.568, 125.588. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889 and 2015.

Critical limits

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Chinese cemetery of Dili”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chinese cemetery of Dili primary sources, Chinese cemetery of Dili archive and Chinese research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese cemetery of Dili” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.