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Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VIII]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII This is the eighth installment of this web site’...

Batangas History 6 Aug, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VII]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the seventh installment of the AI-assisted translatio...

Batangas History 1 Jul, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part VI]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the sixth installment of the AI-assisted translation ...

Batangas History 24 Jun, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part V]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the fifth instalment of this web site’s AI-assisted t...

Batangas History 17 Jun, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part IV]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the fourth instalment of an AI-assisted translation of ...

Batangas History 10 Jun, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part III]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the third instalment of Wenceslao Emilio Retana’ 19 th ...

Batangas History 3 Jun, 2026

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...

Batangas History 27 May, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part II]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII This is the second instalment of the AI-assisted translation o...

Batangas History 20 May, 2026

Wenceslao Retana’s “El Indio Batangueño,” a Translation [Part I]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII Beginning with this post, Batangas History, Culture and Folkl...

Batangas History 13 May, 2026

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...

Batangas History 6 May, 2026

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 ...

Batangas History 29 Apr, 2026

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...

Batangas History 22 Apr, 2026

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...

Batangas History 15 Apr, 2026

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...

Batangas History 8 Apr, 2026

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...

Batangas History 1 Apr, 2026

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...

Batangas History 25 Mar, 2026

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 History 18 Mar, 2026

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...

Batangas History 11 Mar, 2026

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...

Batangas History 11 Mar, 2026

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 ...

Batangas History 11 Mar, 2026