Alifuru people
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Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Aliforoes, Alifuru or Horaforas (in Dutch, Alfoeren) people is a broad term recorded at the time of the Portuguese seaborne empire to refer all the non-Muslim, non-Christian peoples living in inaccessible areas of the interior in the eastern portion of Maritime Southeast Asia,[1] mainly from the Arafura Sea area.
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Melanesia (Eastern Indonesia), Micronesia | |
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Animism, Islam, Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Moluccans, Melanesians |
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