The Local Commerce of Batangas by Jose M. Hilario, 1915
This page contains a transcription of an ethnographic paper written by one Jose M. Hilario in the year 1915. It is part of the Henry Otley-...
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The Life of a Batangas Fisherman by Jose P. Caedo, 1915
This page has been transcribed from an ethnographic paper written by one Jose P. Caedo in 1915. The page is archived at the digital librar...
Fiestas in Bauan, Batangas Province by Severino A. Garcia, 1927
This page has been transcribed from an ethnographic paper written by one Severino A. Garcia in 1927. The page is archived at the digital l...
Towns in Batangas Province That Were Formerly Part of Lipa City
The present-day municipalities of Malvar, Mataasnakahoy, and Balete were once part of Lipa. Their eventual separation from the old municipa...
Laurel, Batangas: The Complicated Road to Township
The Municipality of Laurel, Batangas, did not emerge as an independent town in a single, straightforward act. Its territory passed through...
Archeological Finds in Lobo, Batangas: What the 2008 Survey Revealed
For much of the twentieth century, archaeological research in Batangas concentrated on the southwestern part of the province, particularly...
The Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions in Batangas During the Spanish Colonial Era
The religious history of Batangas during the Spanish colonial period was not the story of a single religious order exercising uninterrupte...
The Malabrigo Lighthouse: A Spanish-Era Beacon Still Guiding Ships in Batangas
On the southern coast of Batangas, where the municipality of Lobo faces the Verde Island Passage, stands one of the province’s most remark...
The Evolution of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Sebastian
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Sebastian in Lipa is sometimes given a single construction date, but the surviving evidence tells a more...
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part XI]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part X]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part IX]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VIII]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VII]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VI]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part V]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part IV]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part III]
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part IX | Part X | Page XI This is the third instalment of...
Historical Roots of Chinese Devotion to the Our Lady of Caysasay
In 1603, when Taal was still located in what is now San Nicolas, a fisherman named Juan Maningcad caught an image of the Our Lady of the I...
Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part II]
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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part I]
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Page IX | Page X | Page XI Beginning with this post, Bat...
The Evolution of the Province of Batangas into Its Present Form
The province now known as Batangas did not emerge immediately as a clearly defined political unit under Spanish rule. Its present form deve...
A History of the Minor Basilica of San Martin de Tours in Taal, Batangas
The story of the Minor Basilica of San Martin de Tours began in the settlement now known as San Nicolas, Batangas. Before the devastating ...
Are the Calatagan Pot Inscriptions Baybayin? A Scholarly Re‑examination of a Batangas Artifact
The Calatagan Pot is an earthenware vessel recovered in the late 1950’s in Calatagan, Batangas and later acquired by the National Museum o...
Local Polities Identified in Batangas by Spanish Chroniclers
When Spanish expeditions reached the southwestern shores of Luzon in the late sixteenth century, they encountered not an empty frontier bu...
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...
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...
The Giant Caldera Hidden Beneath Taal Lake
Long before Taal Lake as we know it today existed, in fact all the way back to prehistory, a massive volcano towered over the landscape of...
Sinaing na Tulingan: a Batangas Heritage Dish
Sinaing na Tulingan is celebrated as one of Batangas’ heritage dishes, standing proudly beside lomi, goto, and bulalo 1 . The fish used i...
Batangas — Possible Austronesian Root of the Name
Among the folkloric etymologies of the name Batangas is that this was supposed to have been from the by-now archaic Tagalog batang , meani...
The Rise and Fall of Burdang Taal, a Historical Perspective
The fine hand‑embroidery known as Burdang Taal in the town of Taal, Batangas stands as one of the Philippines’ most refined textile‑craft...
Catholic Education in Batangas in the Spanish Colonial Era
The towns of Batangas Province in the Philippines, particularly Taal, Lipa, and Balayan, emerged as significant centers of Catholic educat...
History and Development of Batangas’ Sugar Industry
Sugarcane has been part of Batangas agriculture since the Spanish period. In towns such as Balayan, Tanauan, and Bauan, farmers used backy...
The Transfer of Batangas' Capital from Balayan to Taal in 1732
In 1570, Spanish maestro de campo or master of camp (equivalent to Colonel in the present day) Martín de Goiti, the expedition commander...
How Some Coastal Batangas Towns Acted as Supply Nodes in Support of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade
The Manila-Acapulco galleon trade is often remembered through the image of giant ships anchored at what is now Cavite City or Manila Bay 1...
How the 1911 Taal Volcano Eruption Shaped Balete’s Path from Barrio to Municipality
Balete is the third smallest geo‑political unit of the Province of Batangas. It is a lakeside town on the eastern shores of Taal Lake with...
Burdang Taal: The Rise and Retreat of Batangas Embroidery
The embroidered textiles of Taal, Batangas — collectively known in local parlance as Burdang Taal — occupy a distinct place in Philippine...
Batangas’ 1912 Resistance to English Language Instruction in Schools
The Philippine Commission’s Act No. 74 established a centralized Department of Public Instruction in January 1901, creating the statutory ...
Locating the Protohistoric Tagalog Polity Called Kumintang
The coastal region of Batangas has long been recognized as a heartland of Tagalog settlement, yet its early history remains shrouded in am...
Pre-Hispanic and Hispanic Era Contacts between Batangas and Borneo
This article examines material, documentary, and contextual evidence of sustained contact between the Batangas coast and Bornean ports and...
Subversion Cases filed by the Clergy Against Prominent Citizens of Taal, 1895–1896
In the years leading up to the Philippine Revolution, the town of Taal in Batangas became the site of a legal crackdown by Spanish colonia...