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Barangay Sagbayan became its Poblacion which is the seat of government of the municipality. Through the Republic Act No. 1741, it was reverted to its original name, Sagbayan on June 21, 1957, signed by President Carlos P. Garcia. [12] On October 15, 2013, Sagbayan was close to the epicenter of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. The town suffered 12 ...
Anda, officially the Municipality of Anda (Cebuano: Munisipyo sa Anda; Tagalog: Bayan ng Anda), is a municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,778 people.
In early Philippine history, barangay is the term historically used by scholars [1] to describe the complex sociopolitical units [2]: 4–6 that were the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago [3] in the period immediately before the arrival of European colonizers. [4]
From then on, waves of immigrants from the Visayas Region, mostly from Cebu, came to Sulop which was still a barangay under the Municipality of Limonso (now Padada). Settlers from Leyte, Iloilo, and Bohol also arrived within the century. They acquired lands from the natives who retreated to the hinterlands when they came.
In the same year, Executive Order No. 3 [8] was amended on February 27, 1919, by Executive Order No. 22, [9] which returned barrio/barangay Obohan to its former municipality in exchange for barrio/barangay Cantoyoc, while the rest remained unchanged. Additionally, a boundary line between the Municipalities of Clarin and Inabanga was established ...
The town was formerly called "Sagunto", but according to the research of Jess Tirol of Bohol, it was called "Segunto". Local folklore holds that Alburquerque was named in honour of Afonso de Albuquerque, the famous Portuguese seafarer and conqueror of Malacca, Sumatra, though it might be odd to use a Portuguese name as a name of a place which is under Spanish control.
Bien Unido is the youngest municipality in Bohol being founded in 1981 after it was carved out and separated from the municipalities of Trinidad and Talibon. [5] Among the principal industries in Bien Unido are rice farming , seaweed farming , livestock raising , algaculture , fishing , and mat weaving .
The place is a panorama of verdant hills, rugged mountains and green fields. It is said to have been so named because of the grass "balili" which grew in abundance.. Before the beginning of the 19th century, Balilihan was a barrio of Baclayon and an old settlement.