[pre-colonial] Before the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in the Philippines in the 16th century, the Barangays were well-organized independent villages - and in some cases, cosmopolitan sovereign principalities, which functioned much like a city-state. The Barangay was the dominant organizational pattern among indigenous communities in t...
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type of early Filipino settlement; the word is derived from balangay, the name for the sailboats that originally brought settlers of Malay stock to ... [2 related articles]
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Malay term for boat; also came to be used for the communal settlements established by migrants who came from the Indonesian archipelago and elsewhere. The term replaces the word barrio , formerly used to identify the lowest political subdivision in the Philippines.
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