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Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga (Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga; Spanish: Ciudad de Zamboanga; Subanen: Bagbenwa Sembwangan; Sama: Lungsud Samboangan; Tausug: Dāira sin Sambuangan; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Zamboanga; Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Zamboanga) [8] [9] is a highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philippines.
The Republic of Zamboanga was a short-lived revolutionary government, founded by General Vicente Álvarez and the Zamboangueño Revolutionary Forces after the Spanish government in Zamboanga, Philippines officially surrendered and ceded Real Fuerte de Nuestra Señora La Virgen del Pilar de Zaragoza in May 1899. On May 28, 1899, Álvarez ...
Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.
The present-day location was Zamboanga city was historically part of the Subanon people's ancestral lands. Under Spanish colonial rule, the colonial official subjugated the indigenous Subanons and instructed the building of Fort Pilar using native people for labor. People from other regions were afterwards sent to the colony.
The Zamboanga Peninsula played a central role in the Spanish–Moro conflict. It was the site of constant battling between Spanish soldiers and Moro pirate raids. While the Spanish successfully established churches in the region, they suffered heavily at the hands of Moro raiders, and had to repeatedly withdraw from the region.
Mission stations were subsequently established later by the Jesuits in Zamboanga, Iligan, Basilan and Butuan. Outside of these areas, however, the whole of Mindanao remained untouched by the Spanish Cross. The Santa Cruz Marker (Punta Corro) is the spot where migrating Boholanos from the Visayas landed and established settlement.
After this, the Moros essentially had a free rein to attack the Spanish. [20] Zamboanga became devoid of Spanish as they fled to Luzon to defend against the threatened invasion. [21] The Spanish and the Moros had signed the Jolo treaty to stop hostilities decades before renewed Spanish-Moro hostilities during Koxinga's planned invasion.
Zamboanga may refer to: . Zamboanga (province), a former province of the Philippines Zamboanga City, a highly urbanized city located on Mindanao, Philippines; Zamboanga Peninsula, an administrative region in the Philippines and a peninsula projecting westward from Mindanao comprising these provinces: