The middle of Timor's north coast, where the ground behind the beach rises quickly into the sandalwood country and where traders from the west habitually landed (the campaign board).
Mena appears in later accounts as one of the two great names of Timor, and Lifau (in Oecusse, the later Portuguese settlement of 1556 onward) is a Portuguese name of the sixteenth century. Atapupu further east is the other usable roadstead. The Portuguese date and the later Wehali story are not for 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- Local headman
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No name for 1 January 1200 appears in any source we could reach.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: A place the campaign board marks likely; no source of 1200 names it or its lord.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.