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The siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi), [32] [33] also known as the Marawi crisis (Krisis sa Marawi) [34] and the Battle of Marawi (Labanan sa Marawi), was a five-month-long armed conflict in Marawi, Philippines, that started on May 23, 2017, between Philippine government security forces against militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS), including the Maute and Abu Sayyaf ...
The population of Chinese in Mindanao in the 1880s was 1,000. The Chinese ran guns across a Spanish blockade to sell to Mindanao Moros. The purchases of these weapons were paid for by the Moros in slaves in addition to other goods. The main group of people selling guns were the Chinese in Sulu.
On January 30, Rodrigo Duterte expressed frustration on how the government uses resources and taxpayers' money [43] and revived an initiative that Davao del Norte Representative and former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez advocated [44] for political forces from Mindanao to start a movement for a "separate and independent Mindanao".
Valencia, officially the City of Valencia (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Valencia; Filipino: Lungsod ng Valencia), is a 1st class component city in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines.
The Moro conflict [37] [38] [39] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [40] [29] A decades-long peace process [37] [41] has resulted in various peace deals have been signed between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [42] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [43] but ...
Chinese gongs, yellow as a color of royalty, and idioms of Chinese origin entered Mindanao culture. [10] Royalty was connected to yellow. [11] The color yellow was used by the Sultan in Mindanao. [12] Chinese tableware and gongs were exported to the Moros. [13] Merchant Chinese were tranquilly residing alongside the Moros in Maguindanao. [14]
The main campus of the private, non-sectarian University of Mindanao in Davao City was one of the earliest centers of student activism in Mindanao during the Marcos years, with a notable incident in mid-February 1971 now known as "The Battle of Claro M. Recto," so named after the street nearby the campus in which most of the protest took place ...
Casa Residencia Casa Redonda. The protected landscape area contains the Rizal National Shrine, declared in 1973 through Presidential Decree No. 105. [5] It is a collection of five reconstructed houses of bamboo and nipa originally built by José Rizal, [1] as well as other auxiliary structures