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The name Philippines itself originated from its old official name Filipinas in honor of King Philip II of Spain. Spanish language has also become one of the country's official languages from the late 16th century until 1986 when it was designated as a voluntary language and it remains so to this day.
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
Spanish for "The Pineapples"; the city's old name however is "Las Peñas" meaning "The Rocks". [22] Legazpi: Albay: Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Ligao: Albay: from ticao, a Bicolano word for a tree with poisonous leaves. Lipa: Batangas: from lipa, a Philippine linden tree. Lucena: none
Early Spanish accounts render the name of the island in Spanish orthography as Ymaraes or Ymaras. [6] Ifugao. Hispanicized corruption of i-pugo, Ifugao for "of the hills" [47] or "of the earth," [48] both referring to the ethnic group and the rice handed to them by the god Matungulan, according to myth. The province was named after the ethnic ...
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The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago. [1] Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon [2] [3] at least by 134,000 years ago. [4] The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 ...
Camiguin Archaeological Sites Sunken Cemetery (and) Old Bonbon Church Ruins. Catarman, Camiguin: 1853; The sunken cemetery (1) and the church of Bonbon (2) Ruins are spanish colonial era sites in Catarman destroyed during the eruption of Mt. Hibok-Hibok: NMP Declaration No. 1-2017 [17] 2016 [53] Guinsiliban Moro Watchtower Guinsiliban, Camiguin
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.