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In 04 July 1946, US President Harry Truman through US High Commissioner to the Philippines Paul V. McNutt finally recognized independence of Philippine state. It ended almost forty years (since 1901) of American rule in the Philippines. Consequently, this recognition means that the United States' representative government Commonwealth of the Philippines has ended, which started in November of 1935. Prior to this event, however, the Filipinos conducted the last election under the Commonwealth, which elected Manuel Roxas as the president. After declaration of independence, Roxas established the Third Republic of the Philippines making him the first president of the said republic.

read history text (in Tagalog, Cebuano, English and many more languages) - music - music-notes

and with many links to videos with the anthem

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Look the 1987 Constitution HERE

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look also the history of the constitution og the Republic of the Philippines HERE

Researches in two broad areas: Terrestrial and underwater archaeology.

Many good informations and photos

MARCELA M. AGONCILLO

(1860-1946) Maker of the Filipino National Flag Enshrined in Philippine history as the maker of the Filipino flag

a Filipino term meaning “nobility” or “aristocracy”. Its etymology is rooted from the Sanskrit maharddhika which means “a man of wealth, knowledge, and ability”. During ancient times in the Philippines, the word maharlika referred to the nobility class in Philippine society who are also known to be warriors.

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The Philippines Before Spain

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Many good informations and photos

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A doorway to the Past

Use the link in left side and look around

Ancient and Pre-Spanish Era
Pre-Spanish influence, modern day
 Magellan and the Spanish influence
Americas first entanglement
The Japanese and WWII years
Americas final rule
Early Independence Period
The Marcos Era
The Aquino Years and Beyond

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Kahariang Tundun or Kaharian ng Tondo

(Kingdom of Tondo)

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(Tagalog: Kómonwélt ng Pilipinas, Spanish: Mancomunidad de Filipinas)

also known simply as the Commonwealth and as the Philippine Commonwealth, was the political designation of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946 when the country was a commonwealth with the United States

Many good photos, illustrations etc.

• The Philippines Then and Now
• Filipinos Unique Traditions
• History of the Filipino Language
• Philippine Wedding Culture & Superstitions
• Philippine Fiestas & Holidays

is the official publication of the Philippine National Historical Society (first named Philippine Historical Society), an organization of historians and practitioners of history

Many good articles for free download e.g.:

• Land and Society in Early Colonial Philippines (Introduction of the Panel)
  Bernardita Reyes Churchill
• The Agturáy of the Ili: The Elite of Ilocos, 1574-1661
  Digna Balangua Apilado
• Southern Tagalog Society in a Time of Transition, 1571-1671
  Maria Eloisa G. Parco de Castro
• Disaster in Itî’s Land: The Tragic Social History of the Datû Class in
  Leyte (1521-1622)
  Rolando O. Borrinaga
• King Gaam, the Last Monarch of Agbonan (now San Isidro), Bohol, in the
  Early 19th Century
  Emmanuel Luis A. Romanillos
• Recreating Local History Through Vintage Photographs
  Cenon-Roldan Agbayani, Jr.
• The Visayas: Islands in the Seas, A Historical Perspective (Series 5)
  Earl Jude Paul L. Cleope
• Guerrilla War against the Japanese: Americans in the Visayas
  Violeta S. Ignacio
• Human Bibingka: Leyteños under Japanese Rule (1942-1944)
  George Emmanuel R. Borrinaga
• President Sergio Osmeña in Tacloban, Leyte, 1944–1945
  Pablo U. Amascual, III
• Anti-Filipinism in Late 19th Century Publications in Spain
  Erlinda K. Alburo
• The Mindanao I Never Saw: Glimpses of ‘Yutâ sa Saad’ from the
  Collections of the Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos
  Nestor Roa Pacana
• Building a Colonial Hill Station: The Genesis of Baguio
  Maria Nela B. Florendo

with many good links to the History of the Philippines

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The peopling of the Philippines

by/Gaillard & Mallari

Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology, Inc.

Archaeology in the Philippines, the National Museum and an Emergent Filipino Nation

the oldest known fossil age of about 47,000 years remains of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia — a portion of a human tibia — is from the Tabon Cave near Quezon, Palawan

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The Mannungul Jar was found in the Tabon Cave in Palawan

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The Dead, Death, Funeral, Burial in the past - Traditional & Ethnic

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Look also about Paleographs HERE

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The videos that provides a concise history of the Philippines broken down into seven (7) sets of seventy (70) years.

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It is never too late to expand one's knowledge of the past. Embarrassing as it may be to the government that the Bisaya it has tirelessly repressed is indeed descended from the great Sri Vishaya, the pursuit of historical truth justifies itself. If not, then for the sake of our young who can only take so much of self-serving and subjective official Philippine history.

with many good links to the History of the Philippines

Gold Book

In 1981, Berto Morales, a farmer employed as a bulldozer operator in an irrigation project in Surigao struck gold. He discovered a treasure trove of gold ornaments while bringing down a hill to collect filling materials. The discovery, hitherto unknown to the public, is among the largest collection of Philippine archaeological gold in the country as well as in the rest of the world.

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The many different kinds of large and small beads, all of what they call filigree work here.. is clear evidence that they did careful, delicate and beautiful work even better in their antiquity than now since all the ancient gold work is of higher gold content and craftsmanship than what is being made now... [like the kamagi], a piece of jewelry of greater value and curiosity than could be expected of a people apparently so crude and uncivilized (Alcina 1668a, 3:121). As Alcina said century later, "One who knows how to make them today is hard to find." Source: Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott

A short Philippine History before the 1898 Revolution

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with many good links to the History of the Philippines

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• Indio - persons of pure Filipino ancestry
• Negrito - persons of pure Aeta ancestry
• Sangley - person of pure Chinese ancestry
• Mestizo de Sangley - person of mixed Chinese and Malay ancestry; also called chino and/or chino-mestizo
• Mestizo de Bombay - person of mixed Indian and Malay ancestry
• Mestizo de Español - person of mixed Spanish and Malay ancestry
• Tornatrás - person of mixed Spanish, Malay, and Chinese ancestry
• Filipinos - persons of pure Spanish descent born in the Philippines ("from Las Filipinas") also called Insulares ("from the islands") or Criollos (Creoles)
• Americanos - persons of pure Spanish descent born in Spanish America ("from the Americas")
• Peninsulares - persons of pure Spanish descent born in Spain ("from the peninsula")
• Mulato-50% Spanish and 50% black
• Morisco-25% black and 75% Spanish
• Albino- white pigmented black Negro-full blooded black person

Pictures from Old Philippines

Doubles-frame pictures are for the old fashoined Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopic or 3-D imaging).

Contributions of Spanish Colonization in the Philippines

Spanish Philippines: The Colonial Era

Pictures and photographs of the Philippines: people, places, and art during the 18th to 19th century; during Spanish colonial days.

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The traditional houses of the filipinos... it began during Spanish era in the philippine and up to the end of the american colonization.... most of the houses were hundreds of years old already and very sophisticated...

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Spanish Philippines: The Colonial Era

Memoria del español filipino

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An extended meditation on the encounter between the native and the foreign, More Hispanic Than We Admit is a collection of scholarly essays on Philippine culture and history. It recuperates our Spanish past and inspires a continued and lasting engagement with Hispanic Philippines Studies.

Images of old churches and Fort Santiago

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Spanish Colonial Age (Golden Age) in the Philippines, Intramural, which is called City of God because of its many convents, churches, schools, houses and streets made with a colonial art which was magnificent at that time. Once it was destroyed in the World War II by the Americans and Japaneses, who were cruel to its population and majestic city. However, nowadays it remains the memories of that which was the Asian Pearl of the Spanish Empire.

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Intramuros is a walled city-fortress originally built by the Spaniards in the 1600's. It is a historical monument, almost completely destroyed in World War II, it has been restored and is a must-see for visitors to the Philippines. Intramuros is rich with history and legend.

A short video presentation of the history of the Philippines

ubeIceCreamCone wrote on Jul 5, 2009: "Zamboanga" was directed by my grandfather, Marvin Gardner in his native Philippines in 1936. His screen name was Eduardo De Castro. Thought lost forever, it was found in 2003? by Philippine filmmaker Nick de Ocampo at the US Library of Congress. (The copy came from Finland, hence the subtitles.) It stars Fernando Poe, Sr., the father of Fernando Poe, Jr., Philippine actor and presidential candidate. It is the oldest Filipino feature film known to exist. "Zamboanga" came at a crucial moment in the history of filmmaking in the Philippines. It showed the picturesque sea and the captivating landscape and with warring tribes and a kidnapped maiden to hook the audience’s attention," Deocampo reveals.

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Photos of the American conquest of the Philippines, an episode also referred to as the Filipino Genocide. Soundtrack: Campanades a morts, by Lluís Llach.

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as it is known in the Philippines, or the Balangiga affair, as it is known in the United States, was an incident in 1901 during the Philippine-American War where more than forty American soldiers were killed in a surprise guerrilla attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar island.

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What have we become?

Colonial Houses in the Philippines were the union between Eastern style and Spanish pattern. A home designed in stone in the ground floor in order to fight tropical heat and wood at the top to fight the strong earthquakes that often shook the islands. The furniture inside the house was clearly done by people of mixed race, with garlanded rooms with lamps imported from Spain and beautiful glass cabinets dressed in fine China.

These videos portray the historical reactions to the publication of Rizal's two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which moved the Filipino nation to revolt against the Spanish colonial master

THE CHURCH AND THE STATE (1928)

SPAIN is one of those countries in which the division between the Church and the State is not clearly defined, and in which the Church has much too generally dominated the State. In the Philippine Islands this was the case to a marked degree.

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with many good links to the History of the Philippines

The President of the Philippines is the head of state governing the country. According to the Philippine government, the office has been held by politicians who were inaugurated as President of the Philippines following the ratification of a constitution that explicitly declared the existence of the Philippines. Emilio Aguinaldo was president of the short-lived Malolos Republic between 1899 and 1901. Although the republic never received foreign recognition, Filipinos consider Aguinaldo to be their first president.

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Jose Rizal (full name: José Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonso y Realonda) (June 19, 1861 -- December 30, 1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered a national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated as a Philippine holiday called Rizal Day. Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a martyr of the Philippine Revolution.

Old places in the Philippines

so many great historical informations

The Philippines were considered to be a key part of the defence system of the Spanish Crown in the New World.

by Paul T. Gilbert

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In the Philippines, the baroque churches of the Spanish colonial period constitute the most emblematic element of the country's architectural heritage.

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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Central Bank of the Philippines

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A Story of Philippine's Oldest Radio Station

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Rajah Humabon was the Rajah (King) of Cebu at the time of Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in the Philippines in 1521

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was a classical Philippine state which used to exist on Cebu island prior to the arrival of the Spanish.

with many good links to the History of the Philippines

and lowest of the page link to: Filipino Culture - Part I - Filipino Culture - Part II - Philippine Sights and Surroundings

look The Federal Republic of the Visayas (1898-1901) HERE

The surrenderd Ilonggo Nation

by/Elizabeth Medina

by E. WlCKBERG

So many very good articles

Tondo, also referred to as Tundo, Tundun, Tundok, was a Philippine fortified kingdom whose capital is located in the Manila Bay area, specifically north of the Pasig river, on Luzon island

and many links to former kingdoms in the Philippines

The Power of Sulu

Beyond the Currents - The Power of Sulu

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A Fragment of the Ilocano Lord's Prayer, 1620, including an Introduction of the 1621 Dotrina Cristiana.

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Heritage - Museums - Historical Churches, Places & Landmarks

Culture - Anthem - Mythology - Legends & Folklore and much - much more about culture in Philippines

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Maps of Philippines, islands, Cities - Municipalities & Barangays

Also many other kind of maps of the Philippines

You can look all maps as an "Overview" together with more AboutPhilippines on our Photostation where it´s also possible to look all the maps in a diasshow

There are more than 300 maps in different size, age and details e.g. maps of:

• A - Adekey Island - Batanes Province, Agno River, Agusan Del Norte, Agusan Del Sur, Alaminos City, Antique Region Panay Island

• B - Babuyan islands, Bacolod City, Baguio, Bantayan, Bantayan & Botigues (Islands around North Cebu), Basilan island, Batan Island - Batanes Province, Batangas, Bataan, Baybay, Biliran Leyte Samar, Bohol, Boracay island, Budkinon

• C - Cagayan River, Camiguin island, Camputhaw, Capiz province, Cavite Province, Cebu, Cebu Province & Municipalities, Cebu North and Islands around, Cebu City, Clark Area, Compostela, Cordillera Administrative Region - CAR, Corregidor Island, Cotabato River (Mindanao River, Rio Grande de Mindanao, Pulangi River)

• D - Davao City, Davao-del-sur, Davao-oriental, Dipolog Dapitan, Dipolog Downtown, Do - ong

• G - Guimaras, Guintacan

• H - Hilantaga - an & Hilontugan, Hundred Islands National Park

• I - Ilocos Norte Municipalities, Iloilo City, "Ilonggo Nation", Island Garden City, Itbayat Island

• J - Jibitnil, Jolo & Sulu islands-groups

• K - Kamputhaw (Camputhaw)

• L - Laguna Province, Lake Lanao-Agus watershed, Las Piñas City, Lanao Del Norte, La-Union, Legazpi City Area, Leyte, Leyte Samar Biliran, Lingayen, Lipayran, Luzon

• M - Mactan and Olango islands, Maharlika Highway (The Pan-Philippine Highway AH26), Makati City, Malapascua, Mambacayao, Mandaue, Manila, Manila Railway and Street-Railway, Marikina - Pasig river drainagebasin, Marinduque, Mindanao, Mindanao River (Rio Grande de Mindanao, Cotabato River, Pulangi River), Mindoro - Puertogalera, Mindoro Oriental, Misamis Occidental Province, Misamis Oriental Province

• N - Negros, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental

• O - Olongapo City, Olango and Mactan islands, Ortigas

• P - Palawan, Panay, Pangasinan, Pangutaran island, Pasig - Marikina river, Philippines, Philippines with admin-informations, Philippines Airports, Philippine Regions - provinces and their capitals, Philippines´ languages, Philippine Ethnic & Tribal Groups, Polanco municipality, Puertogalera - Mindoro, Puertoprincesa, Pulangi River

• Q - Quezon

• R - Rio Grande de Cagayan - Cagayan River, Rio Grande de Mindanao, Rizal, Romblon

• S - Sabtang Island, Sagada Mt. Province, Samal islands, Samar, Siargao Island, Silion Island, Siquijor, Sorsogon, Subic, Sulu islands-group, Surigao

• T - Tacloban City, Talisay City, Tawi - tawi, Toledo City, Tribal people groups

• V - Visayas islands, Volcanoes, Vuhus Island

• Z - Zambales, Zamboanga, Zamboanga Peninsula

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