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History of Zamboanga Researched and written by: Zamboanga.com® Copyright © 1997-2009 Zamboanga.com All rights reserved. |
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In the beginning, there was Jambangan (not Samboangan, as others might insist - it came later as a Spanish inflection to their pronunciation) the ancient place that was settled in the 1200s by the Subanons, who are considered by historians to be the founding fathers of the place they called the “Land of Flowers.” (interesting historical note: The mainland of the North American continent was first sighted by the Spanish explorer and treasure hunter Don Juan Ponce de Leon on Easter, March 27, 1513. He claimed the land for Spain and named it La Florida, meaning "Land of Flowers".) The Subanons are of Malayan decent who traveled away from their homeland in Indonesia to find their new home on the tip of the Mindanao island peninsula. They are a farming-based people who choose to settle along the banks of the rivers (called suba in their native tongue) and consequently derived their ethnic name from it. The Subanons (“People of the River”) mostly grew root and tree crops, along with their rice staple, which they still do to this day. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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History of Zamboanga - circa 1300s Then came the Badjaos and the Samals from Malayan decent who settled along the Jambangan shoreline in the 1300s. They made contact with the founding Subanons who told them the namesake of their newfound home. One can only imagine the migration route that was founded by the Malayan settlers into Jambangan and Mindanao, and the trade route that ensued along the Sulu Archipelago between them, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the traders from the Middle East, India, China, and Japan who were plying the waters of this area. The Tausugs came next along with the Yakans, both of Malayan decent also. The Tausugs eventually became the most dominant and aggressive ethnic group of the entire region, establishing their own Sultanate based in the island of Jolo, and was part of the bigger Sultanate of Brunei in north Borneo, a thriving trade center of more than 70,000 people. The world at this time was in a trading frenzy and the Malays were leading the way to new products, commerce... Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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History of Zamboanga - circa 1400s In the 1400s, the new settlers of Jambangan, Mindanao Island, and the Sulu Archipelago region experienced a spiritual transformation that is evident to this day. Mohammedanism was introduced to these people of Malayan decent, and eventually spread out to the Visayas and as far north as Manila, and preceded the Spanish arrival by only sixty years. The Mohammedan conquest of the Philippine Islands was almost complete, and the country would have been a Muslim state today. With all due respect to the views of the Mohammedans of the Philippines, the religion of Islam was highly tolerant of other religions even at the zenith of its empire building. Jews and Christians were, to name a few, allowed to practice their beliefs in, of all places, the center of the Islamic world at this time - Baghdad. Their many contributions would also enrich the culture of Islam. If one is inclined to understand a more detailed history of Islam, we recommend... Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
History of Zamboanga - circa 1500s The early 1500s brought along the Spaniards and their Catholic religion into the Philippine Islands, in search of spices and riches. The Spanish's recorded presence in Jambangan can be dated as far back as November 1596, when a small Spanish settlement and garrison was established in the port of La Caldera, the present-day Caldera Bay area barrio called Recodo, located about fifteen miles north-east of present downtown Zamboanga City. Captain Don Juan Ronquillo del Castillo built a presidio with a fort (La Caldera Fort) as the base of their operations in Mindanao and against the Cotabato Moros (the Buhahayens, and their alliance with the king of Terrenate, Moluccas) after withdrawing from the Tampacan and Lumaguan area (present-day Cotabato), and burning their fort and settlement there (which was founded by Captain Estevan Rodriguez de Figueroa in February, 1596), then left Captain Juan Pacho (or Paches) behind to man it before returning to Manila. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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History of Zamboanga - circa 1600s In the 1600s, Jambangan would experience its transition from the Muslim community it has become into the Catholic dominated city it is today. In 1635, Don Juan Cerezo de Salamanca, interim Governor-General of the Philippines, received reports relative to the Moro power concentrated near the site of the present downtown of Zamboanga. During that year, Padre Juan Batista Vilancio, who had been for years a captive in Jolo, escaped to Manila and brought to the ears of the Governor-General an account of the town where "the nobility of Mindanao held court. Governor Salamanca resolved to take possession of this strategic peninsula, hoping in this manner to strike a heavy blow on to the Moro power. A fortress in Jambangan would command the Basilan Straight, the waters of which were the ordinary course of the Moro pirate vessels infesting the coasts of the Visayas. The region of Jambangan, while not as important as the seats of the Sultans of Sulu and Mindanao, was nevertheless the territory of a minor Moro king whose authority reached along both sides of the peninsula for a hundred miles on either side. Salamanca hoped to divide this unbroken front and his efforts would prove successful. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
History of Zamboanga - circa 1700s The San José Fort of Zamboanga was re-taken in 1718 under orders of newly elected Governor-General of the Philippines Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda. It was first demolished and then reconstruction began on April 5, 1719, under the command of General Gregorio Padilla y Escalante.8 The new fort was greatly strengthened to ward off continued Moro Pirates' resistance and other invaders from foreign countries, and was renamed Real Fuerza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragosa after it was completed in the latter part of 1719. By the act of the General Council of the Philippine Treasury, two permanent galliots were maintained at Samboangan since the year 1729, as necessary in those seas, so rough and so infested with enemies, for transporting from the province of Ogtong and the storehouses of Yloylo the rice and other provisions which are needed in this post. The amount needed for the pay of these seamen is sent from the Royal Treasury of Manila. Coastguard Galleys at Samboangan – 1730 A.D. (as described by Don José Antonio Niño de Villavicencio of the Fort Nuestra Señora del Pilar at Samboangan in the Ventura de Arco MSS. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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History of Zamboanga - circa 1800s In 1831, the decision was made to open up Zamboanga's maritime trade to the rest of the European powerhouse empires operating in the region for many years, ending the almost 200-year monopoly that the Spaniards closely maintained. This agreement was part of the deal made when the British gave back control of Manila to the conquered Spanish rulers. Consequently, a customs clearing house was established that year and the Zamboanga port opened up to international trade - although selectively privy to a few powerful signatories. The circumstances which directly led to the opening of Zamboanga as a commercial port with the southern-most customs processing for the Spanish government in the Philippines are interesting when it is remembered that Mindanao Island is still quasi-independent in the interior - inhabited by races unconquered by the Spaniards, and where agriculture by civilized settlers is as yet nascent. It appears that the port of Jolo in Sulu Island had been, for a long time, frequented by foreign ships, whose owners or officers (chiefly British) unscrupulously supplied the Sulus with sundry... Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
History of Zamboanga - circa 1900s In a municipal election on March 1901, Mariano Arquiza succeeded Isidoro Midel by popular vote and became the first elected President of the Zamboanga Republic, now under American administration, for the next two (2) years: 1901 - 1903. With the presence and administration of the American conquerors, Zamboanga was made the capital of the Moro province, encompassing the island of Mindanao and other nearby islands. The importance of Zamboanga was elevated to seat of regional government and diocese of Catholicism in southern Philippines. As war and conquest have been waged all over the world for hundreds and thousands of years, it is not our place to dispute any sovereignty issues here. However, we can present that the powerful Sultanate of Brunei once controlled an area much larger than the present Philippines, but is now under 6,000 sq. km. in size, slightly smaller that the State of Delaware. Kingdoms rise and fall, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, but the people remain and rebuild their lives as they have done for centuries, hoping for the best to come to them and peace to be permanent. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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We are the pioneers of our concept of a socially interactive Chavacano on-line dictionary that was meant to preserve the very unique language we call Chavacano. Over 1 million people scattered around the world call it their lingua franca - the largest Spanish based Chavacano speaking area in all of Asia.
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Enchanting emerald islands laced with exotic coral reefs and azure blue waters, tinged with a rare Pink-Sand Beach and the more normal white sandy beaches, a kaleidoscope of other textured beaches, peppered with willowy tall coconut trees, swaying to the local tropical haven that is known as the place of flowers... a melting pot of ancient civilizations all mixed in a jaunt place we simply call our paradise: Zamboanga Hermosa. |
Chavacano de Zamboanga History June 23, 1635 should be symbolically known as “Dia del Chavacano de Zamboanga.” Why you might ask? This was the day that a permanent foothold was laid on Zamboanga by the Spanish government with the construction of the San José Fort, and the subsequent evolution and proliferation of a unique dialect/language based on ancient Creole Spanish that is called Chavacano de Zamboanga. This is our history, this is our culture… Let us begin the account by saying that as a result of continued Moro Pirate attacks on the Spanish controlled Visayas and Luzon Islands, a lingering plan to take possession of the strategic Mindanao peninsula and its town of Jambangan in the center of Moroland would be finally commenced at the urging of Bishop Fray Pedro of "Santissimo Nombre de Jesus" (Cebu) to the interim Governor-General of the Philippines, Don Juan Cerezo de Salamanca. Governor Salamanca resolved to take possession of this strategic peninsula, hoping in this manner to strike a heavy blow on to the Moro power. A fortress in Jambangan would command the Basilan Straight, the waters of which was the ordinary course of the Moro Pirate vessels infesting the coasts of the Visayas. Salamanca hoped to divide the unbroken front between the Sultans of Sulu and Mindanao, and his efforts proved successful. After due preparation for their voyage, a conquering force of about three hundred (300) well armed Spaniards and around one thousand Cebuanos with a few of their Jesuit priests, under the command of Captain Juan de Chaves, landed at Jambangan on April 6, 1635. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
Republic of Zamboanga - 1st Philippine Republic Zamboanga, the ancient and beautiful City of Flowers that was founded in 1635, was once declared and existed as a sovereign republic within its territory of historic existence inside a revolutionary government popularly chosen by its Chavacano citizens. It resulted from the chaos of war declared between the United States versus Spain and its territories, including its only Asian territory - The Philippines; then, the ensuing war between the Filipinos of Luzon against their former comrades of the conquering U.S. forces; followed thereafter by the battle between the Chavacanos of Zamboanga against their former allies of the ruling Spanish military, and then ultimately against the invading U.S. Army after the Zamboangueños defe<<Selection in Document>>ated and evicted the ruling Spaniards, led by Gen. Alvarez and his local troops. General Vicente Alvarez declared victory and their freedom from all foreign influence by creating the historic Republic of Zamboanga on May 18, 1899 and was chosen President of the new Republic of Zamboanga, where their declared sovereignty lasted from May 18, 1899 until November 16, 1899, wherein its revolutionary government and chosen President , along with his victorious military troops, exercised de facto sovereignty over administrative functions and military control within their new country territory and was not subordinate or subject to any other government or authority in the country known as Las Islas Filipinas by its former Spanish rulers. Consequently, the Republic of Zamboanga became the first sovereign "Filipino" republic ever created in Philippine history. Read on... Help Support Zamboanga.com. Click on the Ads. |
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