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Ruy Lopez de Villalobos name the Archipelago las islas Filipinas (the Philippine Island) named after Philip II of Spain 🇪🇸. Before the Philippines was put under Spanish rule, it was called “ Pearl of the Orient “ ( Perla del Mar del Oriente ).

The answer is actually both. The word Philippines is used as a collective noun and When spoken is the name of a country is when spoken is the name of the country is treated as singular. The same word can be used as a plural to indicate the Group of islands ( Over 7000) over 7000 of them) that form the country.

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Cebu has a population of 2.5 million and is the oldest city and the first capital of the Philippines. Under Spanish rule for three centuries, Cebu has the oldest university, San Carlos University, and the oldest street, Colon Street, built by the Spaniards.

Callao Man (c.

The earliest known hominin remains in the Philippines is the fossil discovered in 2007 in the Callao Caves in Cagayan. The 67,000-year-old find predates the 47,000-year-old Tabon Man, which was until then the earliest known set of human remains in the archipelago.

Why does "Filipino" start with an "F," while "Philippines" starts with a "Ph"? "Philippines" is anglicized, while "Filipino" is probably in Spanish (Spain colonized the Philippines). Because that's the proper spelling in the country's language. Philippines is an Americanized spelling.

American colonial authorities referred to the country as the Philippine Islands (a translation of the Spanish name). The United States began changing its nomenclature from "the Philippine Islands" to "the Philippines" in the Philippine Autonomy Act and the Jones Law.

noun. hedonist [noun] someone who holds the belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life.

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The maharlika (Baybayin pre-virama: ᜋᜑᜎᜒᜃ meaning freeman or freedman) were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines. They belonged to the lower nobility class similar to the timawa of the Visayan people.

Modern authors have garlanded the Philippines with other names, including "Gems of the East", "Emerald Islands", "Treasure Islands of the Pacific", "Isles of Fears", "Isles of Hope", "Orphans of the Pacific" and "Land of the Morning."

From the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, the Philippine Islands were part of a great Hindu-Malayan empire ruled from Java and Sumatra in the neighboring islands to the southwest. Mohammedanism swept over this area of the world in the latter part of the fifteenth century.

Manila is the evolved Spanish form of the native placename Maynilà, which comes from the Tagalog phrase may-nilà ("where indigo is found"). Nilà is derived from the Sanskrit word nīla (नील) which refers to indigo, and, by extension, to several plant species from which this natural dye can be extracted.