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Mountain Province (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Bantay; Filipino: Lalawigang Bulubundukin [3]) is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc while Bauko is the largest municipality. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain in some foreign references.
A competition for a new seal for Cabuyao was held. The design of Domingo Alconaba, a native painter of the then town of Cabuyao was chosen. It was adopted as the official seal by the virtue of Municipal Resolution No. 165-1993 which was authored by Municipal Council member, Dionisio S. Punongbayan.
The coat of arms of the Philippines (Filipino: Sagisag ng Pilipinas; Spanish: Escudo de Filipinas) features the eight-rayed sun of the Philippines with each ray representing the eight provinces (Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Manila, Laguna, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Tarlac) which were placed under martial law by Governor-General Ramón Blanco Sr ...
Early Spanish accounts rendered the toponym as Donblon [6] in Spanish orthography, which is probably based on the native word lomlom, a term with cognates across many Philippine languages meaning "dark," or "shady," [95] perhaps in reference to the once-thick forests of, or the clouds that constantly form over, the island that now bears the ...
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
The letters C/c, F/f, J/j, Ñ/ñ, Q/q, V/v, X/x, and Z/z are not used in most native Filipino words, but they are used in a few to some native and non-native Filipino words that are and that already have been long adopted, loaned, borrowed, used, inherited and/or incorporated, added or included from the other languages of and from the Philippines, including Chavacano and other languages that ...
The Tagalog Wikipedia was launched on 1 December 2003, [citation needed] as the first Wikipedia in a language of the Philippines.. As of 3 February 2011, it has more than 50,000 articles. [2]
1. THIRD PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC (1960–1980) No. Name Term Origin Note(s) 1 Alfredo Galaygay Lamen Sr. April 7, 1967 - December 30, 1967 Sagada