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  2. 1593 transported soldier legend - Wikipedia

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    The Plaza Mayor, where the soldier allegedly appeared in 1593, pictured in 1836.. A folk legend holds that in October 1593 a soldier of the Spanish Empire (named Gil Pérez in a 1908 version) was mysteriously transported from Manila in the Philippines to the Plaza Mayor (now the Zócalo) in Mexico City.

  3. List of Metro Manila placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Pío del Pilar, Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War. [46] Pinagkaisahan: Quezon City and Makati: Filipino word for "united." [2] Pinagsama: Taguig: Filipino word for "united" or "combined" in reference to the joining of seven villages. Polo: Valenzuela: Spanish rendering of the Tagalog word "pulo ...

  4. Zócalo - Wikipedia

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    The modern Zócalo in Mexico City is 57,600 m 2 (240 m × 240 m). [5] It is bordered by the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral to the north, the National Palace to the east, the Federal District buildings to the south and the Old Portal de Mercaderes to the west, the Nacional Monte de Piedad building at the northwest corner, with the Templo Mayor site to the northeast, just outside view.

  5. Filipino Mestizos - Wikipedia

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    Mestizos as illustrated in the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. In the Philippines, Filipino Mestizo (Spanish: mestizo (masculine) / mestiza (feminine); Filipino/Tagalog: Mestiso (masculine) / Mestisa (feminine)), or colloquially Tisoy, is a name used to refer to people of mixed native Filipino and any foreign ancestry. [1]

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...

  7. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The pre-colonial native Filipino script called baybayin was derived from the Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century. [13] According to Jocano, 336 loanwords in Filipino were identified by Professor Juan R. Francisco to be Sanskrit in origin, "with 150 of them identified as the origin of some major Philippine terms."

  8. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Dialect – Any of the languages of the Philippines other than Tagalog (Original meaning: a variety of a standard language) Duster [28] — A loose dress wore in (and near) one’s house. (Original meaning: a cleaning tool) Gets [18] — Slang for understand. Commonly used in Taglish. (Original meaning: to have, achieve, obtain something)

  9. Hilario Moncado - Wikipedia

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    Hilario Camino Moncado del Prado (November 4, 1898 – April 9, 1956) was a Filipino mystic and political activist. [1] He was the founder and leader of the Filipino Crusaders World Army, a religious and patriotic group in the Philippines. [2] He was also the owner and editor of a semi-monthly Filipino magazine Filipino Nation published in English.