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Jolo (Tausug: Sūg) is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines and the primary island of the province of Sulu, on which the capital of the same name is situated. It is located in the Sulu Archipelago , between Borneo and Mindanao , and has a population of approximately 500,000 people.
The Jolo Group of Volcanoes, more commonly referred to as the Jolo Group, are an active group of volcanoes on the island of Jolo in Southern Philippines. The Global Volcanism Program lists Jolo as one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines [ 1 ] while the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) collectively lists the ...
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The Mindanaons and the Sulus began raiding with their fleets the islands of Visayas to a point that its expected that they would come as far as Manila.In order to stop these raids, the Spanish governor of Philippines, Francisco de Tello de Guzmán, determined that an expedition to Sulu should be made at once without delays to subjugate the island put their sultan to obedience.
In 1628, the Spanish governor, Juan Niño de Tabora, sent Cristobal de Lugo on an expedition to Jolo, leading 100 Spanish and 1,000 natives. The Spanish then began raiding the vicinity, capturing weapons, gunpowder, destroying several sulu tombs, setting fire to over 60 joangas , farmhouses, and rice fields, and releasing many captives.
According to Dr. Najeeb M. Saleeby (1908) and in old maps such as the Velarde map, "Joló" was the historical Spanish spelling of the word "Sulu" that now refers to the province and the whole Sulu Archipelago, which the early Spaniards historically spelt as "Xoló", with the initial letter most likely formerly pronounced with the Early Modern Spanish [] sound, with [ʃoˈlo] the Spanish ...
Bud Dajo (Tausug: Būd Dahu; Spanish: Monte Dajó), is a cinder cone and the second highest point (+600m) in Sulu, a province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago.It is one of the cinder cones that make up the island of Jolo and part of the Jolo Volcanic Group. [2]
The sea as viewed from Palawan Shark found in the Tubbataha National Marine Park, Sulu Sea, Philippines. The Sulu Sea (Filipino: Dagat Sulu; Tausug: Dagat sin Sūg; Malay: Laut Sulu; Spanish: Mar de Joló) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan [1] and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu ...