António José Teles de Meneses explained

Nationality:	Portuguese
Office:	Colonial governor of Portuguese Timor
Term Start:	1768
Term End:	1776
Predecessor:	Dionísio Gonçalves Rebelo Galvão
Successor:	Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses

António José Teles de Meneses was a Portuguese colonial administrator who held the position of Governor of Portuguese Timor, while it was still part of the Portuguese State of India, between 1768 and 1776, having been preceded by Dionísio Gonçalves Rebelo Galvão and succeeded by Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses.^{[1] [2] [3]}

According to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, the "Governor of Timor, António José Teles de Meneses, seeing the impossibility of defending Lifau by sea and land, took the historic decision to destroy the stronghold on August 11, 1769 and to move to the province of Belos. After some hesitation, he sailed to the bay of Dilly, and there founded the new capital of Timor and Solor, on the 10th of October, 1769".^[4]

See also

• List of colonial governors of Portuguese Timor

Notes and References

1. Monika Schlicher: Portugal in Osttimor. Eine kritische Untersuchung zur portugiesischen Kolonialgeschichte in Osttimor 1850 bis 1912. Aberag, Hamburg 1996. ISBN 3-934376-08-8
2. A. H. de Oliveira Marques: Geschichte Portugals und des portugiesischen Weltreichs. Kröner August 2001, ISBN 978-3520385017.
3. http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/History_of_Timor.pdf History of Timor – Technische Universität Lissabon
4. D. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (2013), História da Igreja em Timor-Leste: 450 Anos de Evangelização, 1562-1940, 1.º volume, Porto, Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, p. 223.