Datu is the title for chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs in the Visayas and Mindanao Regions of the Philippines. Together with Lakan (Luzon), Apo in Central and Northern Luzon, ``Sultan`` and ``Rajah``, they are titles used for native royalty, and are still currently used especially in Mindanao and Sulu. Depending upon the prestige of...
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(from the article `Philippines`) ...and social organization linked to a fixed territory. The lowland peoples lived in extended kinship groups known as barangays, each under the ... ...into pueblos, or villages, surrounding the great stone churches. But the dispersed demographic patterns of the old barangays largely persisted. ... [2 ...
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