%0 Journal Article %T Timor Leste: contru o duma identidade %A Francesca Bedin %A Vanessa Ribeiro Castagna %J OPSIS : Revista do Departamento de Hist¨®ria e Ci¨ºncias Sociais %D 2010 %I Universidade Federal de Goi¨¢s %X This article consists of the first chapters of the thesis entitled: ¡°The principle of selfdetermination, the case of East Timor¡± and deals with history and identity of this country. The objective is to underline how diffivult is to build a national identity in such a territory. The article focuses also on the strong relation between East Timor and Portugal, especially on a linguistic point of view. %K Timor Leste %K identidade %K l¨ªngua portuguesa. %U http://revistas.ufg.br/index.php/Opsis/article/view/9758#.T-B9r_Wgssw