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Kauswagan, officially the Municipality of Kauswagan (Maranao: Inged a Kauswagan, Cebuano: Lungsod sa Kauswagan, Tagalog: Bayan ng Kauswagan), is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,193 people.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was the only autonomous region in the Philippines, until it was superseded by Bangsamoro; as such it is the sole region with a regional government as prescribed by the Constitution of the Philippines. [1]
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (Filipino: Pambansang Komisyon sa mga Pilipinong Muslim; Arabic: اللجنة الوطنية لمسلمي الفلبين : allajnat alwataniat limuslimi alfilibiyn) is a government agency in the Philippines, whose objective is to promote the rights of Muslim Filipinos and to make them active participants in Philippine nation-building.
The administration of Philippine President Joseph Estrada advocated a hardline stance against the MILF, directing the Armed Forces of the Philippines to "go all out" against the MILF on March 21, 2000, after the secessionist group invaded the town of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte and took hundreds of residents hostage.
Samaon Sulaiman, a Filipino musician who is a recipient of the National Living Treasures Award (Philippines). Zacaria Candao, a Filipino politician who served as the first governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Zamzamin Ampatuan, a Filipino career bureaucrat. Datu Amir Baraguir, twenty-fifth Sultan of Sultanate of Maguindanao.
The Spanish referred to Muslim inhabitants of the Philippines as "Moros," after the Muslim "Moors" they had regarded with disdain in Iberia and the Maghreb. [4] The subsequent Spanish conquest led to Catholic Christianity becoming the predominant religion in most of the modern-day Philippines, with Islam becoming a significant minority religion.
This category includes articles of people who are Muslim (followers of the religion of Islam) from Philippines. May not necessarily be from the Moro ethnic group. Contents
Maguindanao genealogy records state that Kabungsuwan's father was an Arab and a sharif or a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad while his mother was Malay.His recorded name "Kabungsuwan" in Maguindanao tradition means "youngest" and is said to be the youngest among three children.