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  2. Pangasinan (historical polity) - Wikipedia

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    Pangasinan was a sovereign coastal pre-colonial Philippine polity (panarian) located at the coasts of Lingayen Gulf. [1] South of Pangasinan was the kingdom of Caboloan (Luyag na Caboloan), located in the interior of Central Luzon , beside the Agno River basin.

  3. Pangasinan - Wikipedia

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    The Pangasinan people (Totoon Pangasinan) are called Pangasinan or the Hispanicized name Pangasinense, or simply taga-Pangasinan, which means "native of Pangasinan". Pangasinan people were known as traders, businesspeople, farmers and fishers. Pangasinan is the third most-populated province in the Philippines.

  4. List of provincial name etymologies of the Philippines

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    Hispanicized and pluralized form of vatan, the indigenous name for the province's main island, of obscure origin, similar to the etymology of Bataan above. The term batang has cognates across various Austronesian languages, mostly being a word that means "the main part of something," such as "trunk" or "body" [16] (see Batangas below). On a ...

  5. Caboloan - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. Caboloan refers to the place where there is an abundance of bolo (Gigantochloa levis), ... In 1611, the province of Pangasinan was made, annexing both the ...

  6. List of Philippine city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Name origin Alaminos: Pangasinan: Juan Alaminos y Vivar, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Angeles: none: a contraction of its original Spanish name El Pueblo de los Ángeles which means "The Town of Angels." Antipolo: Rizal: Hispanicized form of the Tagalog phrase ang tipolo which means "the breadfruit", the tree that grew ...

  7. Bolinao - Wikipedia

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    Folk etymology attributes the name "Bolinao", a remote fishing enclave, from the fish specie "monamon" - commonly called "bolinao" by the Tagalogs, Bicolanos, and the Visayans. A theory also posits that once upon a time, "pamulinawen" trees grew luxuriantly along its shores; thus, the Ilocano migrants who crossed Lingayen Gulf named it ...

  8. Ilocos Region - Wikipedia

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    Poverty incidence of Ilocos Region 10 20 30 40 2000 39.70 2003 30.20 2006 25.95 2009 21.97 2012 18.46 2015 18.81 2018 9.85 2021 11.00 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority In 2023, the poverty incidence among families in the Ilocos Region was recorded at 8.4%, with a Full Year Per Capita Poverty Threshold of ₱34,454. The Coefficient of Variation for the poverty incidence in the region was ...

  9. List of Philippine place names of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    Basista, Pangasinan (Spanish surname of unknown origin.) Bautista, Pangasinan (derived from San Juan Bautista, Spanish name for "Saint John the Baptist") Benito Soliven, Isabela (Spanish name. Named after Filipino politician Benito T. Soliven.) Bien Unido, Bohol ("well united")