Sixto Lopez, the Nationalist Reformer from Balayan, Batangas
Batangas, one of the eight provinces that first rose in revolt against Spanish rule in 1896, was among the great contributors to the brief...
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Pre-Hispanic Religious Life in Batangas: Reconstructing Tagalog Ritual Practice in a Southern Luzon Heartland
The reconstruction of pre-Hispanic religious life in Batangas faces a central limitation of the historical record: early Spanish chronicle...
Mount Malepunyo, East of Lipa
Due east of the City of Lipa in Batangas is a mountain range that borders the city of Santo Tomas in Batangas, the municipality of Alamino...
The 1910 Batangas Public Health Ordinance: Responding to a Decade of Epidemics Under American Rule
By the end of the first decade of American civil government, Batangas had already endured a sequence of severe epidemic crises that shaped...
Batangas as Part of the Pre-Colonial Southeast Asian Maritime Jade Network
In prehistoric Southeast Asia, jade refers to a category of durable stone commonly shaped into necklaces, bracelets, adzes, beads, and the...
19th Century Calaca, Batangas as Described by the Spanish Historian Manuel Sastron
This document is another transcription of a chapter of the Spanish historian Manuel Sastron’s book “Batangas y Su Provincia 1 ,” published...
19th Century Tuy as Described by the Historian Manuel Sastron
This continues the series in this web site on 19 th century Batangas based on the Spanish historian Manuel Sastron’s book “Batangas y Su ...
Spanish Era Coastal Watchtowers and Moro Raids in Batangas
The arrival of the conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi in the Visayas in 1565 1 with a colonizing party of Spaniards, including missiona...
Maria Kalaw-Katigbak: First Batangueña Senator in Congress
There is a long list of Batangueñas who left significant marks on Philippine history, and among them stands Maria Kalaw‑Katigbak, whose li...
The Historical, Linguistic, Ethnic and Cultural Batangueño
This article traces the evolution of the people known as Batangueños — their origins, language, ethnic configuration, and culture — from t...