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Butuan, also called the Rajahnate of Butuan and the Kingdom of Butuan (Filipino: Kaharian ng Butuan; Butuanon: Gingharian hong Butuan; Cebuano: Gingharian sa Butuan; Chinese: 蒲端國; pinyin: Púduānguó), was a precolonial Bisaya polity (lungsod) centered around northeastern Mindanao island in present-day Butuan, Philippines.
www.butuan.gov.ph. Butuan (pronounced / ˌbuːtˈwɑːn /), officially the City of Butuan (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Butuan; Butuanon: Dakbayan hong Butuan; Filipino: Lungsod ng Butuan), is a 1st class highly urbanized city and the regional center of Caraga, Philippines. It is the de facto capital of the province of Agusan del Norte where it is ...
Location of Butuan in the province of Agusan del Norte. Some Filipino historians have long contested the idea that Limasawa was the site of the first Catholic mass in the country. [27] Historian Sonia Zaide identified Masao (also Mazaua) in Butuan as the location of the first Christian mass. [14]
Demographics. Butuanons number about 1,420,000. They are the descendants of Austronesian-speaking immigrants who came from South China during the Iron Age. The native language of Butuanons is the Butuanon language, but most Butuanon nowadays primarily speak the Cebuano language, because of the mass influx of Cebuano settlers to Mindanao, and ...
Caraga, officially the Caraga Administrative Region[ 3 ] (or simply known as Caraga Region) and designated as Region XIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northeastern section of Mindanao. The region was created through Republic Act No. 7901 on February 23, 1995. [ 3 ]
The oldest known balangay are the eleven Butuan boats, which have been carbon-dated individually from 689 to 988 CE and were recovered from several sites in Butuan, Agusan del Norte. [1][2][3] The Butuan boats are the single largest concentration of lashed-lug boat remains of the Austronesian boatbuilding traditions.
Rajah Siawi (sometimes called Rajah Siagu) was the ruler of the Rajahnate of Kalagan Butuan and Surigao during the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Limasawa Island.A cousin of Rajah Humabon of the Rajahnate of Sugbu (Cebu), Rajah Siawi was one of the first rulers (along with Rajah Kulambo, the ruler of Limasawa Island) to accept Christianity and attend the first Catholic Mass in the Philippine ...
The Butuan Silver Palaeograph, also known as the Butuan Silver Strip, is a piece of metal with inscriptions found in Butuan, Agusan province in mid-1970s by a team of archaeologists from the National Museum of the Philippines. Treasure hunters who were looking for old ceramics and gold ornaments discovered this metal strip inside a wooden ...