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Filipinas is a 2003 Philippine family drama film directed by Joel Lamangan. The film stars Armida Siguion-Reyna , Maricel Soriano , Richard Gomez , Aiko Melendez , Dawn Zulueta , Victor Neri and Wendell Ramos .
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (' Events of the Philippine Islands ') is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in ...
Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional, the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. The original Spanish name, and also used in different Philippines languages including Filipino, for the Philippines. The plural of "Filipina", a female who is a citizen of the Philippines or is of Filipino descent.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
In the late 1700s to early 1800s, Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga, an Agustinian Friar, in his Two Volume Book: "Estadismo de las islas Filipinas" [284] [285] compiled a census of the Spanish-Philippines based on the tribute counts (Which represented an average family of seven to ten children [286] and two parents, per tribute) [287] and came ...
Upon his return to Europe in 1602, he worked on the publication of these writings into a book entitled Relación de las Islas Filipinas. The book was eventually published in Rome in 1604. [citation needed] In Europe, he was able to further establish the Jesuit mission in the Philippines at both the royal and pontifical courts.
In 1543, Ruy López de Villalobos arrived at the islands of Leyte and Samar and named them Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain, at the time Prince of Asturias. [2] Philip became King of Spain on January 16, 1556, when his father, Charles I of Spain (who also reigned as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), abdicated the Spanish throne.
Ruy López de Villalobos (Spanish pronunciation: [ruj ˈlopeθ ðe βiʝaˈloβos]; c. 1500 – 23 April 1546) was a Spanish explorer who led a failed attempt to colonize the Philippines in 1544, attempting to assert Spanish control there under the terms of the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.