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Basilisa, Dinagat Islands (Spanish given name.) 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")
[187] [188] [189] During the early part of the Spanish colonialization of the Philippines, the Spanish Augustinian friar Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A., describes Iloilo and Panay as one of the most populated islands in the archipelago and the most fertile of all the islands of the Philippines. He also talks about Iloilo, particularly the ...
Philip II became King of Spain on January 16, 1556, when his father, Charles V, abdicated both the Spanish and HRE thrones, the latter went to his uncle, Ferdinand I. On his return to Spain in 1559, the king ordered an expedition to the Spice Islands, stating that its purpose was "to discover the islands of the west". [41]
The following is a listing of the sovereigns of the kingdoms in the Philippine archipelago before their dominions fell to either the Kingdom of the Spains and the Indies (mostly in the 16th or 17th century) or the United States of America (in the 20th century), and of their non-sovereign descendants that kept honorary titles.
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.
Early Spanish accounts render the name of the island in Spanish orthography as Ymaraes or Ymaras. [6] Ifugao. Hispanicized corruption of i-pugo, Ifugao for "of the hills" [47] or "of the earth," [48] both referring to the ethnic group and the rice handed to them by the god Matungulan, according to myth. The province was named after the ethnic ...
The word barangay in modern use refers to the smallest administrative division in the Philippines, also known by its former Spanish adopted name, the barrio. This modern context for the use of the term barangay was adopted during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos when he ordered the replacement of the old barrios and municipal ...
Namayan (Baybayin: Pre-Kudlit: ᜈᜋᜌ or ᜐᜉ (Sapa), Post-Kudlit: ᜈᜋᜌᜈ᜔), also called Sapa [5] and sometimes Lamayan, [6] was an independent [1]: 193 polity [7] [8] on the banks of the Pasig River in the Philippines.