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Kingdom of Luzon. The Kingdom of Luzon was described as one of the more powerful and wealthier kingdoms in the archipelago. It was noted for its commerce, literacy, diplomacy, navy, and use of artillery. Its influence ranged at least from Mindoro to Kapampangan lordships, with possibilities of greater extent suggested by the name of the kingdom.
Rival of Datu Lapu-Lapu. In 1521, he and his wife were baptized as Christians and given Christian names Carlos and Juana after the Spanish royalty, King Carlos and Queen Juana. Sultan Kudarat – Sultan of Maguindanao. Lakan Dula or Lakandula – King of Tondo, one of the last princes of Manila.
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as page needs proper analysis, some paragraphs here are not verified, there were no kingdoms like in the manner of Europeans, Indians, Chinese, and other Southeast Asians in pre-colonial Philippines, and pre-colonial Cebu was not confirmed to be primarily a Hindu-majority kingdom (otherwise, Pigafetta and ...
The Royal House of Sulu is an Islamic royal house which ruled the Sulu Sultanate (now part of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia).In 1962, the Philippine Government under the leadership of President Diosdado Macapagal, who himself was a distant cousin of the Sulu Sultans, counting among his ancestors Princess Laila Menchanai of Sulu, the great-grandmother of the Muslim king of Manila ...
The Royal Audience of Manila was created by Royal Decree by King Felipe II dated 5 May 1583, and established in 1584. In the Viceroyalty of New Spain, to which it belonged, it had been preceded by the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo (1511), the Real Audiencia of Mexico (1527), the Real Audiencia of Panama (1538), the Real Audiencia of Guatemala ...
Names in bold indicate the individual was/is a president of the Philippines. The Philippine political arena is mainly arranged and operated by families or alliances of families, rather than being organized around political parties.
Prior to the Archaic epoch (c. 900–1565), the consorts of the Filipino monarchs were organized in three general tiers: Dayang (ᜇᜌᜅ᜔), Lakambini (ᜎᜃᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜈᜒ), and Binibini (ᜊᜒᜈᜒ ᜊᜒᜈᜒ), or even the word Hara (ᜑᜇ) is a Malayo- Sanskrit terms in which referred to a Queen in western sense, also meant the ...
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.