"Las Islas Felipenas", named by Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos in honor of Prince Philip of Spain, used to refer to the islands of Leyte and...
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Leyte (/ˈleɪti, ˈleɪteɪ/ LAY-tee, LAY-tay) is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. It is eighth-largest and sixth-most populous...
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Wood.) MacArthur, Leyte New Washington, Aklan (named after the first U.S. president George Washington.) Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte (named after Saint...
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fue y de lo que es la Diocesis de Cebu en las Islas Filipinas. Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press. 2014. "Leyte Historical Junctures". oocities...
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List of islands of the Philippines (section Leyte)
Island Cabgan Island (Leyte) Calaguan Island Kalanggaman Island Caltagan Island Calumpijan Island Canigao Island Cuatro Islas Apid Island Digyo Island...
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USS Isla de Cuba was a Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser of the United States Navy captured from the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War....
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many historians and the government to be Limasawa off the tip of Southern Leyte, However, until at least the 19th century, the prevailing belief was that...
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Hilongos (redirect from Hilongos, Leyte)
es la Diócesis de Cebú en las Islas Filipinas (in Spanish). Manila: Colegio de Santo Tomas. Tantuico, Francisco Sypaco (1964). Leyte : the historic islands...
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Samar y Leyte. Chofré y comp. de Mentrida, Alonso (1841). Diccionario De La Lengua Bisaya, Hiligueina Y Haraya de la isla de Panay. n La Imprenta De D. Manuel...
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from Isla Grande de Santa Cruz) Isabel Island Isla de Convalecencia ("island of convalescence") Islas de Gigantes ("Islands of Giants") La Monja Island...
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Inopacan (redirect from Inopacan, Leyte)
Tagalog: Bayan ng Inopacan), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 21,389...
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Dimasaua (category History of Southern Leyte)
of a historical study entitled Labor evangelica obreros de la compañia de Jesus en las islas Filipinas, which was published 1663 in Madrid. Colín identified...
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Daiquirí, El Caney, El Cobre, El Cristo, Guilera, Leyte Vidal, Moncada and Siboney. Historically Santiago de Cuba was the second-most important city on the...
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la lengua Bisaya-Hiligueyna y Haraía de las islas de Panay y Sugbu, y para las demás islas (1637) by Alonso de Méntrida which in turn was for the Hiligaynon...
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The name Felipina and Islas Felipinas originally applied to only Leyte, Samar, and their nearby islands before shifting to Islas Filipinas and spreading...
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These three provinces, along with the provinces on the nearby islands of Leyte and Biliran, are part of the Eastern Visayas region. About a third of the...
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1526, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón in 1527, and Ruy López de Villalobos in 1542. In 1543, Villalobos named the islands of Leyte and Samar Las Islas Filipinas...
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Es la isla de Panay muy parecida a la de Sicilia, así por su forma triangular come por su fertilidad y abundancia de bastimentos... Es la isla más poblada...
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Benito, Surigao del Norte, a municipality San Benito, a barangay in Dagami, Leyte San Benito, Cochabamba, Bolivia San Benito, Santander, Colombia San Benito...
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Philippines (redirect from Islas de Filipinas)
During his 1542 expedition, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the islands of Leyte and Samar "Felipinas" after the Prince of Asturias, later...
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missionary in the Philippines. He is most remembered for his work, Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604), one of the earliest works about the Philippines and...
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Barugo (redirect from Abango, Barugo, Leyte)
Tagalog: Bayan ng Barugo), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,497...
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During the early Spanish era, what is now called Biliran was known as Isla de Panamao. The present name, believed to be adopted sometime between the...
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Palo Cathedral (redirect from Our Lord's Transfiguration Parish (Palo, Leyte))
Cathedral or simply Palo Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church located at Palo, Leyte, in the Philippines belonging to the Vicariate of Palo under the Metropolitan...
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Es la isla de Panay muy parecida a la de Sicilia, así por su forma triangular come por su fertilidad y abundancia de bastimentos... Es la isla más poblada...
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Mindanao. De la Torre is sometimes further claimed to have named Mindanao Caesarea Caroli in honor of the Habsburg emperor Charles V; to have named Leyte and...
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Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte and Leyte Gulf, and includes several islands in the Samar Sea. Samar is connected to the island of Leyte via the San Juanico...
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Sendino, Fiscal Esclesiastico de Dicha Diocesis (1886). Breve Reseña de lo que fue y de lo que es la Diócesis de Cebu en las Islas Filpinas. Manila: Estabelcimiento...
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Colín, Francisco. 1663. Labor evangelica de los obreros de la Compañia de Jesús, fundacióon y progresos de Islas Filipinas. Pablo Pastells (ed.), 3 vols...
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was given by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos who named the islands of Samar and Leyte "Las Islas Felipinas" (The Philippine Islands), during...
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