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Lapulapu[2][3][4] (fl. 1521) or Lapu-Lapu, whose name was first recorded as Çilapulapu, [5] was a datu (chief) of Mactan, an island now part of the Philippines. Lapulapu is known for the 1521 Battle of Mactan, where he and his men defeated Spanish forces led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his native allies Rajah Humabon and Datu Zula. [6][7] Magellan's death in battle ended his ...
Datu is the title for chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs throughout the Philippine archipelago. [1] The title is still used today, especially in Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, but it was used more extensively in early Philippine history, particularly in central and southern Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. [8][4][2][3][9] Other titles still used today are lakan in Luzon, apo in central and ...
Datu Sikatuna (or Catunao) was a Datu or chieftain of the Bool Kingdom (or Kedatuan of Dapitan) in the island of Bohol in the Philippines. He made a blood compact (sanduguan) and alliance with the Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi on March 25, 1565 at Hinawanan Bay, barangay Hinawanan, Loay. [1] Their blood compact is the first Treaty ...
History of the Philippines. 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]
The term Paramount Ruler, or sometimes Paramount Datu, is a term used by historians [who?] to describe the highest ranking political authorities in the largest lowland polities or inter-polity alliance groups in early Philippine history, [ 1] most notably those in Maynila, Tondo, Pangasinan, Cebu, Bohol, Butuan, Cotabato, and Sulu. [ 2][ 3]
Tondo was a large coastal settlement led by several leaders, called datu, who had their own followings, called either "dulohan" or "barangay". [5][9] These datus with their respective barangays in turn acknowledged the leadership of a datu with the most senior rank – a "paramount ruler" [31] or "paramount datu", [7] who was called a "lakan ...
Political history of the Philippines. Emilio Aguinaldo, who led the Philippine Revolution against Spain, and Manuel L. Quezon, President of the autonomous Commonwealth of the Philippines under the United States. Early polities in what is now the Philippines were small entities known as barangays, although some larger states were established ...
e. " Naturales " (natives) depicted in the Boxer Codex, specifically marked and identified as Tagalogs. In early Philippine history, the rank of lakan denoted a "paramount ruler" (or more specifically, "paramount datu") of one of the large coastal barangays (known as a "bayan") on the central and southern regions of the island of Luzon. [1]