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Madja-as was a legendary precolonial confederacy on the island of Panay in the Philippines. It was mentioned in Pedro Monteclaro's book titled Maragtas . It was supposedly created by Datu Sumakwel to exercise his authority over all the other datus of Panay. [ 1 ]
The Philippines was a former American colony and during the American colonial era, there were over 800,000 Americans who were born in the Philippines. [54] As of 2013, there were 220,000 to 600,000 American citizens living in the country. [55] There are also 250,000 Amerasians scattered across the cities of Angeles City, Manila, and Olongapo. [56]
The Karay-a number 363,000 in 2010 . [1] They were first believed to be the descendants of immigrants from Borneo, through the epic-myth of the "Ten Bornean Datus".Recent findings, however, revealed that the ancestors of the Karay-a are the Austronesian-speaking immigrants who came from South China during the Iron Age.
Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of 12,011 km 2 (4,637 sq mi) and a total population of 4,542,926, as of 2020 census. [4] Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. [ 5 ]
A map showing the traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines by province. The indigenous peoples of the Philippines are ethnolinguistic groups or subgroups that maintain partial isolation or independence throughout the colonial era, and have retained much of their traditional pre-colonial culture and practices. [1]
The Panay Bukidnon are known for their Binanog dance, which mimics the flight of the Philippine eagle, accompanied by an agung ensemble. Another dance of the same name is also performed by the Bukidnon Lumad of Mindanao, suggesting a cultural connection between the people of the Western Visayas and northern Mindanao in ancient times.
Their small numbers are principally concentrated in the islands of Boracay, Panay and Negros. They are genetically related [3] to other Negrito ethnic groups in the Philippines such as the Aeta of Luzon, the Batak of Palawan, the Agta of the Sierra Madres, and the Mamanwa of Mindanao. [4]
The Hiligaynon people (Hiligaynon: mga Hiligaynon), often referred to as Ilonggo people (Hiligaynon: mga Ilonggo) or Panayan people (Hiligaynon: mga Panayanon), [2] are the second largest subgroup of the larger Visayan ethnic group, whose primary language is Hiligaynon, an Austronesian language of the Visayan branch native to Panay, Guimaras, and Negros.