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  2. Administrative divisions of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Administrative regions are groupings of geographically adjacent LGUs that are established, disestablished, and modified by the president of the Philippines based on the need to more coherently make economic development policies and coordinate the provision of national government services within a larger area beyond the province level.

  3. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their size. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National Curriculum [1] for England. The term is also used in the planning system for the UK and for some other countries such as Ireland, India, and Switzerland. The term was used without comment ...

  4. Barangay - Wikipedia

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    The barangay [c] (/ b ɑːr ɑː ŋ ˈ ɡ aɪ /; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as barrio, [d] is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines.Named after the precolonial polities of the same name, modern barangays are political subdivisions of cities and municipalities which are analogous to villages, districts, neighborhoods, suburbs, or boroughs. [6]

  5. History of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    In order to defend the settlements the Spaniards established in the Philippines, a network of military fortresses called "Presidios" were constructed and officered by the Spaniards, and sentried by Latin-Americans and Filipinos, across the archipelago, to protect it from foreign nations such as the Portuguese, British and Dutch as well as ...

  6. Political history of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    This movement was supported by the United States, who desired the Philippines to be an example of democracy as the Cold War reached Asia, and by the Catholic Church. [35]: 48–51 Quirino's Liberal government was widely seen as corrupt and was easily beaten by Ramon Magsaysay in the 1953 election. Magsaysay, who oversaw the surrender of the ...

  7. Precolonial barangay - Wikipedia

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    For example, F. Landa Jocano, in his seminal work Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage, notes: Even if different Barangays entered into alliances with one another, there was no sovereign datu over them. Each datu ruled his barangay independently. The alliances were limited to mutual protection and assistance in times of need.

  8. Chinese Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    In the 11th century, the states—or chief settlements—recorded by the local Bureau of Maritime Trade are Butuan, written in records as "蒲端" (Hokkien Chinese: 蒲端; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pô͘-toan) and Sanmalan recorded as "三麻蘭" (Hokkien Chinese: 三麻蘭; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-mâ-lân), whose traders presented themselves as tribute ...

  9. Maynila (historical polity) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest oral traditions suggest that Maynila was founded as a Muslim settlement as early as the 1250s, supposedly supplanting an even older pre-Islamic settlement. [1] However, the earliest archeological findings for organized human settlements in the area dates to around 1500s. [ 1 ]