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The maharlika (Baybayin pre-virama: ᜋᜑᜎᜒᜃ meaning freeman or freedman) were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines. They belonged to the lower nobility class similar to the timawa of the Visayan people .
The Maharlika Nation is a registered entity under the Philippine government's Securities and Exchange Commission. [7] According to the Socorro Mayor Felizardo Galameda, the group had unsuccessfully attempted to get registered as a people's organization. [8] The Maharlika Nation claims itself to be self-governing under the IPRA law.
File information Description Maharlika Livelihood Complex and Malcolm Square at Magsaysay Avenue, downtown area, Baguio City, Benguet Source Taken using my own camera with model DSC-WX80 Date 2018-02-25 Author Patrick Roque Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
One Lusung official by the name of Surya Diraja annually sent 175 tons of pepper to China and had to pay the Portuguese 9000 cruzados in gold to retain his plantation. His ships became part of the first Portuguese fleet that paid an official visit to the Chinese empire in 1517. [176]
Maharlika Village, officially Barangay Maharlika and simply known as Maharlika, is one of the 38 barangays of Taguig, Philippines. As of the 2020 census , the population was 23,470. The barangay, which was created from the land that was excluded out of AFP Enlisted Men's Village on January 3, 1974, has the largest Muslim community in Metro Manila.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The name La Pampanga was given by the Spaniards, who encountered natives living along the banks (pampáng) of the Pampanga River. Its creation in 1571 makes it the first Spanish province on Luzon Island ( Cebu in Visayas is older as it was founded by the Spaniards in 1565).
A class described as "freemen" [9] consisting of timawa and maharlika; and Alipin (slaves), [ 9 ] which could further be subcategorized as aliping namamahay or aliping sa gigilid . The term datu or lakan , or apo refers to the chief, but the noble class to which the datu belonged to was known as the maginoo class.