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1863 Manila earthquake · Manila earthquake of 1863

The 1863 Luzon earthquake — the great earthquake of June 3, 1863 — struck Manila and surrounding provinces of Spanish-era…

April 23, 1946 senatorial election — the date-based designation · The 1946 at-large Senate race — the descriptive form for its sixteen-seat, nationwide mechanics

The 1946 Philippine Senate election was the senatorial contest held on April 23, 1946 — the same day as the…

La Tondena strike · La Tondeña strike

The 1975 La Tondeña Distillery strike was a walkout at the Manila distillery of La Tondeña, then described as the…

Republic Act No. 11310 · RA 11310

The 4Ps Act is the short-title convenience for Republic Act No. 11310, officially "An Act Institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino…

Abu Sayyaf Group · ASG

The Abu Sayyaf Group (Abu Sayyaf, commonly ASG) is the Islamist militant organization of the southern Philippines — Basilan, Sulu,…

Act of Capitulation — the English rendering in Negrense commemoration · The Bacolod capitulation of 1898 — descriptive styling

The Acta de Capitulación is the surrender instrument of the Negros Revolution: the act signed at Bacolod on November 6,…

Acta de Tejeros declaration · The Tejeros Act

The Acta de Tejeros is the declaration by which Andrés Bonifacio and his followers repudiated the elections of the Tejeros…

Ayta (alternate spelling) · Agta and Dumagat (collective terms applied, with Aeta, to the related Luzon Negrito peoples — Agta for southeastern Luzon, Dumagat for eastern Luzon)

The Aeta (also spelled Ayta; with Agta and Dumagat, one of three collective terms for several indigenous peoples of Luzon)…

Agueda Esteban y de la Cruz (full baptismal-style name) · Agueda Barroga (name during her first marriage)

Agueda Esteban (full name Agueda Esteban y de la Cruz, February 5, 1868 – September 1944) was a Filipina revolutionary…

Henerala Agueda · Generala

Agueda Kahabagan y Iniquinto was a Filipino revolutionary general of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine–American War, a member of…

AMT · Ágúman ding Maldang Talapagobra

The Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT) — Kapampangan for "League of Poor Laborers," also rendered "League of Poor Workers" —…

Hanunó'o Mangyan poetry — its generic description in the literature · The seven-syllable chant — its metrical signature

The ambahan is the traditional poetic chant of the Hanunó'o Mangyan people of Mindoro, Philippines — a rhythmic expression composed…

Don Bosyong — the nickname by which contemporaries knew him · Ambrosio R. Bautista — the short formal styling

Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista (Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista y Altamira; December 7, 1830, Biñan, Laguna – December 4, 1903) was a Filipino…

Anastacio T. Caedo — name form recorded by DBpedia · The model of the Oblation — the designation his students and successors attached to him

Anastacio T. Caedo (August 14, 1907 – May 12, 1990) was a Filipino sculptor from Batangas who served as Guillermo…

ancestral domains

An ancestral domain is, in Philippine law, the area that Section 3(a) of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (Republic Act…

Supremo (short form of his title) · Kataastaasang Pangulo / Presidente Supremo (Supreme President)

Andrés Bonifacio (November 30, 1863, Tondo, Manila – May 10, 1897, Maragondon, Cavite) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, co-founder of…

Aniceto L. Lacson · General Aniceto Lacson

Aniceto Lacson (April 15, 1857 – February 3, 1931) was a Filipino sugar planter and revolutionary of Negros — the…

anitu — alternate spelling recorded in the standard account ([Wikipedia — Anito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anito "Anito — Wikipedia")) · anitismo / anitería — the Spanish-era labels for the belief system, Anitism ([Wikipedia — Anito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anito "Anito — Wikipedia"))

The anito (also anitu) is the term for the ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities of the indigenous Philippine folk…

ABM · Anti-Bases Coalition (ABC) — the Tañada–Diokno formation documented from 1983

The Anti-Base Movement (ABM) is the shorthand this wiki uses for the family of Philippine coalitions that campaigned, from the…

Antonio Luna y Novicio (short Spanish-style form) · Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (full birth name)

Antonio Luna (in full Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta; October 29, 1866, Binondo, Manila – June…

Antonio Lombardo — his enrollment name in the expedition's muster · Antonio Pigafetta Vicentino — the Renaissance styling honoring his city

Antonio Pigafetta (born c. 1491, Vicenza, Republic of Venice – died c. 1531–1534, the year uncertain, in Vicenza) was a…

Apo Reef Natural Park (protected-area designation) · Apo Reef Marine Park (early designation under the 1980 proclamation)

Apo Reef is a coral reef system in the Mindoro Strait, off the western coast of Occidental Mindoro in the…

The Sublime Paralytic (Dakilang Lumpo) · The Brains of the Revolution (Utak ng Rebolusyon)

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864, Barrio Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas – May 13, 1903, Manila), known as the "Sublime…

The Aranetas · Araneta clan

The Araneta family is a prominent Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin — the surname itself is a Basque name, carried…

Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Cebu — the formal title · Archidioecesis Metropolitae Nominis Iesu o Caebuana — the Latin designation

The Archdiocese of Cebu — formally the Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Cebu — is…

Philippine architecture — the common styling of the subject field · Filipino architecture — the national-adjective form, used interchangeably in the survey literature

The Architecture of the Philippines is the building tradition of the Philippine archipelago — the sequence of indigenous, colonial, American-period,…

Arsenio Cruz-Herrera — the hyphenated styling used by his Wikidata entry · The first Filipino mayor of Manila — the designation by which he is standardly identified

Arsenio Cruz Herrera (December 14, 1863 – April 8, 1917) was a Filipino lawyer, revolutionary-era official, and party leader —…

El Vibora (popular rendering of his nom-de-guerre) · General Víbora ("the Viper" — his Katipunan code name)

Artemio Ricarte (October 20, 1866, Batac, Ilocos Norte – July 31, 1945, Hungduan, Ifugao) was a Filipino general of the…

Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr. (rank attained September 15, 1906) · Military Governor of the Philippines (May 5, 1900 – July 4, 1901)

Arthur MacArthur Jr. (June 2, 1845 – September 5, 1912) was a United States Army officer — Civil War hero,…

Arturo Rogerio Dimayuga Luz (November 1926, Manila – May 26, 2021) was a Filipino painter, printmaker, sculptor, and designer —…

AEC — the standard initialism · the economic pillar of the ASEAN Community — its designation in the three-pillar structure of political-security, economic, and socio-cultural communities

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is the economic pillar of the ASEAN Community — the framework for regional economic integration…

Kalibo Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan Festival — the official styling used by the municipality of Kalibo · The Mother of All Philippine Festivals — the title the festival's reputation carries

The Ati-Atihan Festival is the annual religious and cultural festival of Kalibo, Aklan — a celebration held every January and…

OAR · Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum

The Augustinian Recollects (Latin: Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum; OAR) are a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church — friars and…

Balian / baylan (Visayan variants) · Katalonan / catalonan (Tagalog; William Henry Scott and others noted the catalonan spelling is "actually a Pampangan term")

The babaylan were the shamans of the pre-colonial Philippine ethnic groups — specialists, as the record puts it, in "communicating,…

Baclayon · Municipality of Baclayon

Baclayon, officially the Municipality of Baclayon, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…

Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe · Bagobo Tagabawa

The Bagobo-Tagabawa are an indigenous Lumad people of the Davao region in southern Mindanao, Philippines, whose ancestral domain centers on…

BAYAN · Bayan

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN; literally "New Patriotic Alliance") is the largest progressive multisectoral alliance in the Philippines, founded in…

BICPI · Balik Islam Council

The Balik Islam Council of the Philippines Inc. (BICPI) is a Philippine non-profit civil-society and religious-advocacy organization representing "Balik Islam"…

Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc. · BOFI

The Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc. (BOFI) is the non-stock, non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ,…

Bantayog — the short form in Philippine usage · Monument of Heroes — the English rendering of the name

The Bantayog ng mga Bayani ("Monument of Heroes") is the memorial complex on Quezon Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, near the…

Barangay Ginebra Kings · Ginebra San Miguel

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is a Philippine professional basketball franchise competing in the Philippine Basketball Association — the league this…

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish — formal parish designation · Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Barásoain (Spanish designation)

The Barasoain Church, formally the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Barásoain), is a…

Baroque Churches of the Philippines (World Heritage serial property, reference 677 / 677bis) · Iglesia de San Agustín de Manila — the Manila component's Spanish designation

The Baroque Churches of the Philippines is the UNESCO World Heritage serial inscription of December 11, 1993 (17th session of…

Basilica del Santo Niño — the common short form · Santo Niño Basilica — the popular styling of the devotion's literature

The Basilica Minore del Santo Niño — formerly the church and convent of San Agustín, Cebu — is the Augustinian…

The Death March (the form used in prisoner-of-war memoirs) · Bataan: The March of Death (the title of Stanley L. Falk's 1962 study, often shortened to "the march of death")

The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer of roughly 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war by…

Batad cluster (designation within the UNESCO inscription) · Amphitheater terraces of Batad (descriptive)

The Batad Rice Terraces are the amphitheater-shaped rice-terrace cluster of Barangay Batad, in the municipality of Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines —…

Ang Labanan sa Alitao · Labanan sa Alitao

The Battle of Alitao (November 1, 1841) — remembered in the record as the Alitao massacre — was the four-hour…

Battle of Binakayan and Dalahican · Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican (hyphenated variant, found in reference databases)

The Battle of Binakayan–Dalahican was a twin, simultaneous engagement of the Philippine Revolution, fought on November 9–11, 1896, along the…

The Leyte campaign — the October–December 1944 island operation · The Leyte operation — the Sixth Army's amphibious assault of A-day, October 20, 1944

The Battle of Leyte (October 20 – December 26, 1944) was the amphibious campaign by which American and Filipino forces…

The largest naval battle in history — the superlative styling, properly qualified by criteria · The Battles for Leyte Gulf — the plural styling used for its four separate engagements

The Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23–26, 1944) was the vast four-engagement naval battle fought in the waters of the…

The Battle of Mactan, 1521 — the year-qualified form · Lapu-Lapu's victory at Mactan — the result-based styling

The Battle of Mactan was fought in the early morning of April 27, 1521, on the shore of Mactan Island…

Liberation of Manila · Liberation of Manila — the Philippine commemorative name for the battle and its aftermath

The Battle of Manila (February 3 – March 3, 1945) was the month-long battle for the Philippine capital during the…

The Battle of Cavite — the alternative naming, after the anchorage where Montojo's squadron was destroyed · Dewey's victory — the popular American styling

The Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) was the naval engagement fought in Philippine waters at the opening of…

Pasong Tirad · Battle of Pasong Tirad

The Battle of Tirad Pass (December 2, 1899), fought at the pass locally called Pasong Tirad near Concepcion, Ilocos Sur,…

Battle of Yuldong / Battle of Yuldong-ri · Battle of Meiluodong

The Battle of Yultong (April 22–23, 1951) was the fight put up by the 10th Battalion Combat Team (BCT) of…

Bayanihan is the Filipino custom and core value of communal unity and mutual aid — neighbors working together, without expectation…

Benito Cosmé Legarda y Tuason (full Spanish-style name) · Benito Legarda y Tuason

Benito Legarda (in full Benito Cosmé Legarda y Tuason; September 27, 1853, Manila – August 27, 1915, Évian-les-Bains, France) was…

Bb. Pilipinas (common abbreviation) · Binibining Pilipinas pageant

Binibining Pilipinas is the annual Philippine national beauty pageant founded in 1964 — the oldest active national beauty pageant in…

Pacto de sangre · Sandugo of 1565

The Blood Compact — in Visayan, the Sandugo, literally "one blood" — is the pact sealed in March 1565 on…

Kalinga peace pact — the descriptive English term · Peace-pact system of the Kalinga

The bodong is the indigenous peace-pact institution of the Kalinga people of Kalinga Province in the Cordillera mountains of northern…

Bantayog ni Bonifacio — Filipino name recorded in the DBpedia entry · Bonifacio National Monument — official name in its heritage-designation records

The Bonifacio Monument (Filipino: Bantayog ni Bonifacio; official designation name, Bonifacio National Monument) is Guillermo Tolentino's monument to Andrés Bonifacio,…

Bontoc · Capital of Mountain Province — the administrative designation since 1908 ([Wikipedia — Mountain Province](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Province "Mountain Province — Wikipedia"))

Bontoc is the capital municipality of Mountain Province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon — a first-class municipality of…

Pugilism · Prizefighting

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art in which two opponents fight in a ring, trading punches with gloved…

BoC (Konrad Lawson's abbreviation) · The Constabulary (the occupation-era shorthand, ambiguous with the American-era Philippine Constabulary)

The Bureau of Constabulary was the national police force organized under Japanese sponsorship during the occupation of the Philippines in…

Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila — the formal title of the 1905 document · The Burnham Plan — the common short form in Philippine planning literature

The Burnham Plan of Manila is the popular name for the "Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila," the 1905 city…

Camilo Osías y Olaviano — the full Spanish-style naming, paternal surname Osías, maternal surname Olaviano · Mr. Philippine Freedom — the nickname his House colleagues gave him during his Washington years

Camilo Osías (Camilo Osías y Olaviano; March 23, 1889 – May 20, 1976) was an Ilocos-born educator, textbook author, and…

Candido Tría Tirona y Mata — full Spanish-style name · General Candido Tirona — the commemorative styling of the 1956 historical marker and popular history

Cándido Tirona — in full Candido Tría Tirona y Mata (August 29, 1863, Kawit, Cavite – November 10, 1896, Binakayan,…

Capul · Municipality of Capul

Capul, officially the Municipality of Capul, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…

Botong Francisco · Carlos V. Francisco

Carlos "Botong" Francisco (born Carlos Modesto Villaluz Francisco; November 4, 1912, Angono, Rizal – March 31, 1969, Angono) was a…

Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada — the styling of the English record and the Wikidata label · Carlos María de la Torre y Navacerrada — the single-word Spanish spelling of the record

Carlos María de la Torre (Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada; born in Seville in 1809 – died…

Casto Jurado Alejandrino — full name · Guan Yek (GY) — principal wartime alias

Casto Alejandrino — in full Casto Jurado Alejandrino, aliases Guan Yek (GY), Torres, GI, and Tatang (November 18, 1911 –…

CWO — the standard abbreviation of the record · The official organization of the Hierarchy of the Philippines — the designation given at the bishops' July 1945 assumption of control

The Catholic Welfare Organization (CWO) was the national organ of the Catholic hierarchy of the Philippines — created on February…

Cavite Mutiny of 1872 · The 1872 Cavite Mutiny — the dated form of commemorative usage

The Cavite Mutiny was the uprising of about two hundred soldiers and laborers at the Spanish arsenal of Fort San…

Bisaya — the speakers' own common name for the language · Binisayâ — the preferred name among many Leyte, Mindanao, Davao, Caraga, and Zamboanga speakers

The Cebuano language is an Austronesian language of the Bisayan (Visayan) group — classed within Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine,…

Charles Harvey Denby — full name · Colonel Denby — his Civil War rank, by which he was known in Indiana

Charles Harvey Denby (June 16, 1830 – January 13, 1904) was an American lawyer, Civil War officer, and diplomat —…

Chico River Basin Development Project — the basin-wide styling of the scheme · Chico Dam Project — the short form used in Cordillera movement literature

The Chico River Dam Project was the Marcos-era hydroelectric scheme of the 1970s that planned four dams — Chico I…

唐人街 · Tángrénjiē

A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan — a…

Tsinoy · Chinoy

Chinese Filipinos (also Filipino Chinese, and widely Tsinoys or Chinoys) are Filipinos of full or partial Chinese descent, typically born…

Joaquin "Chino" Roces · Joaquin "Chino" Pardo Roces — the full name of record

Chino Roces — Joaquin "Chino" Pardo Roces (June 29, 1913 – September 30, 1988) — was a Filipino businessman and…

Jeong Ju-yung · Asan Chung Ju-yung

Chung Ju-yung (Korean: 정주영; November 25, 1915 – March 21, 2001) was a South Korean industrialist, the founder of the…

UP Chapel · Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (canonical designation since 1977)

The Church of the Holy Sacrifice — since 1977 canonically the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, and popularly the UP…

Coffee bean · Coffee

Coffee is a globally consumed beverage prepared from the roasted seeds—commonly referred to as beans—of plants belonging to the genus…

Philippine coffee · Coffee in the Philippines

Coffee in the Philippines refers to the historical cultivation, processing, commercial trade, and consumption of coffee within the country. The…

Confraternity of Saint Joseph · Confradia de San Jose

The Cofradía de San José (Confraternity of Saint Joseph) was a Filipino religious brotherhood founded in December 1832 in Lucban,…

Digmaang Malamig · Cold War era

The Cold War was the period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their…

Ianfu (慰安婦, the contemporary Japanese administrative euphemism) · Military sexual slaves (the term used in the UN special rapporteurs' reports)

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and…

CA 682 · The People's Court Act — the descriptive styling in the legal literature

Commonwealth Act No. 682, approved September 25, 1945 and signed by President Sergio Osmeña, is the statute officially titled "An…

Nao Concepción — her designation in the fleet lists · The Conception — the English form used in the Stanley translation of Pigafetta

The Concepción was a Spanish carrack (nao) of 90 tonels — about 108 toneladas, or roughly 54 English shipping tons…

Conditional cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer program

A conditional cash transfer (CCT) is a social protection program in which the government (or a charity) transfers cash to…

CPA · Cordillera People's Alliance

The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) is an independent federation of progressive, mostly grassroots organizations of the indigenous peoples of the…

Coworking space · Co working

Coworking is a business services model where individuals from different organizations and self-employed professionals share a common working environment, office…

Crisanto Abaño Evangelista — full name

Crisanto Abaño Evangelista (November 1, 1888 – June 2, 1942) was a Filipino labor leader and communist politician — the…

Crispa · Crispa Denims

The Crispa Redmanizers were the professional basketball franchise of P. Floro and Sons, Inc. — the Floro family's retail-store and…

Ka Bel — the universal movement name · Crispin Bertiz Beltran — the full name of the biographical record

Crispin Bertiz Beltran (January 7, 1933 – May 20, 2008), known across the Philippine labor movement as Ka Bel, was…

Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin (Filipino) · Cry of Balintawak

The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin), also and originally remembered as the Cry of Balintawak (Sigaw…

Body of Committed Members — the literal English rendering of the Spanish name · The conservative wing of La Liga Filipina — its documentary designation in accounts of the 1892 split

The Cuerpo de Compromisarios ("Body of Committed Members") was the conservative Filipino reform association formed from the wreckage of La…

CCP · Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is the Philippine government's national institution for the preservation, development, and promotion of…

Dagohoy revolt — the short form most Philippine textbooks carry · Dagohoy revolution — the styling used in Bohol's own commemorative literature

The Dagohoy Rebellion — also called the Dagohoy revolt or Dagohoy revolution — was the uprising led by Francisco Dagohoy…

Daniel Tría Tirona y Mata (full Spanish-style name) · Daniel Tirona y Tría (alternative styling)

Daniel Tirona (July 22, 1864, Cavite el Viejo [now Kawit], Cavite – September 2, 1939) was a Filipino revolutionary and…

City of Davao · Durian Capital of the Philippines

Davao City, officially the City of Davao (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Dabaw; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Dabaw), is a highly urbanized city…

Delfina Herbosa de Natividad (December 20, 1879 – March 10, 1900) was a Filipina revolutionary and seamstress, remembered as the…

First Supremo of the Katipunan · First president of the Katipunan Supreme Council (Kataas-taasang Pangulo)

Deodato Arellano (July 26, 1844 – October 7, 1899) was a Filipino patriot, clerk, and Freemason who served as the…

The Tagalog Newspaper — the English gloss of the title given in the biographical record · The first bilingual newspaper of the Philippines — its description in the del Pilar record

Diariong Tagalog ("Tagalog Newspaper") was a short-lived bilingual newspaper of Tagalog and Spanish published in Manila in 1882, founded by…

Dictatorial Government of the Philippines (1898) · Aguinaldo's dictatorship of 1898

The Dictatorial Government of the Philippines was the provisional government established by Emilio Aguinaldo's decree of May 24, 1898, issued…

Fray Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (full religious name) · Father Diego Cera

Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (1762–1832) was a Spanish Augustinian Recollect friar, natural scientist, and organ builder —…

Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau — full name · Don Diego de los Ríos

Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau (April 9, 1850, Guadalajara, Spain – November 4, 1911, Madrid) was a Spanish lieutenant…

UP Diliman Commune · Diliman Commune of 1971

The Diliman Commune was the nine-day occupation and barricading of the University of the Philippines Diliman campus by students, faculty,…

Iloilo Ati-atihan — the festival's original name before the 1977 coining of "Dinagyang" · Dinagyang — the short form, used alike for the devotion, the festival, and its Sunday competition

The Dinagyang Festival is Iloilo City's annual religious and cultural festival, held on the fourth Sunday of January in honor…

Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala — full title of the 1593 Tagalog-Spanish edition · Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua China — the companion 1593 Chinese-language edition

The Doctrina Christiana is the conventional name for the Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala — the catechism printed…

The author of the Book of Duarte Barbosa — the Livro em que dá relação de que viu e ouviu no Oriente, its full Portuguese title · Captain of the Victoria — his command from the San Julián mutiny onward

Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480, Lisbon – May 1, 1521, Cebu) was a Portuguese writer, scrivener, and expedition officer — a…

Dumagat — standard short form · Agta — the self-designation ("human") of many of the communities so labeled by outsiders

The Dumagat people are an indigenous Negrito people of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre, generally classified as a…

Seismic Baroque · Earthquake baroque architecture

Earthquake Baroque is a form of Baroque architecture designed to withstand earthquakes, developed in the Philippines and in Guatemala —…

EB — the standard initialism, itself a registered trademark cancelled in TAPE's name in December 2023 · Eat... Bulaga! — the program's stylized on-air rendering

Eat Bulaga! is a Philippine television variety show, premiered on July 30, 1979 on the Radio Philippines Network (RPN) and…

Edjop · Edgardo Gil Mirasol Jopson

Edgar Jopson (born Edgardo Gil Mirasol Jopson; September 1, 1948, Sampaloc, Manila – September 21, 1982, Davao City), known throughout…

General Edilberto Evangelista · Lieutenant General Edilberto Evangelista — the rank documented for the Imus Assembly election

Edilberto Evangelista (February 24, 1862 – February 17, 1897) was a Filipino civil engineer and revolutionary general — the Belgian-trained…

El filibusterismo (Spanish styling; often printed and capitalized as El Filibusterismo) · The Reign of Greed — the title of Charles Derbyshire's 1912 complete English translation

El Filibusterismo ("The Filibusterism," commonly rendered The Reign of Greed or The Subversive) is the second and last completed novel…

Muling Pagsilang (the Tagalog section's title, "The Rebirth" — treated by the courts as the same newspaper) · The Birds of Prey case (the shorthand name for the litigation over the October 30, 1908 editorial)

El Renacimiento ("The Renaissance") was a nationalist Manila newspaper founded in 1901 during the early American colonial period, published as…

EV charging station · EV Charging

Electric Vehicle Charging (commonly referred to as EV charging) is the process of supplying electrical energy to the battery pack…

EV charging stations in the Philippines · EV charging stations Philippines

Electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the Philippines refers to the network of charging stations, technical standards, operating networks, and regulatory…

Service elevator · PWD lift

An elevator (commonly referred to as a lift) is a vertical transportation platform designed to move passengers and goods between…

Elpidio Rivera Quirino — his full name, the Spanish-era styling of his birth record · Elpidio R. Quirino — the form carrying his mother's surname as middle initial

Elpidio Quirino (born Elpidio Rivera Quirino; November 16, 1890, Vigan, Ilocos Sur – February 29, 1956, Novaliches, Quezon City) was…

General Emilio Aguinaldo · Heneral Miong / Kapitan Miong / Ka Miong (from his childhood nickname "Miong")

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869, Cavite el Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite – February 6, 1964, Quezon City) was…

Pingkian — his alias in the Katipunan, the name by which Bonifacio's circle knew him · Dimas-Ilaw (Dimasilaw) — his pen name in the newspaper Kalayaan

Emilio Jacinto y Dizon (December 15, 1875, Tondo, Manila – April 16, 1899, Laguna), known as the "Brains of the…

Eman Lacaba · Emmanuel F. Lacaba

Emmanuel Agapito Flores Lacaba (December 10, 1948, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental – March 18, 1976, Tucaan Balaag, Asuncion, Davao…

Endo · End of contract practice

Endo contractualization — from "end of contract" — is the Philippine employment practice of hiring workers on repeated short-term engagements…

ESS Energy Storage · ESS battery storage

An Energy Storage System (ESS) is a technology or set of technologies that captures electrical energy during periods of production…

Henrique — Pigafetta's recorded form · Enrique de Malacca / Enrique de Malaca — the Spanish-document spellings

Enrique of Malacca — Pigafetta's "Henrique," Hispanicized in the Spanish documents as Enrique — was Ferdinand Magellan's slave and interpreter…

Calle de la Escolta — the Spanish-era street name · La Escolta — the older shorthand, recorded in the sources for the riverside path before it was widened into a street

Escolta Street (Spanish: Calle de la Escolta) is a historic east–west street in the old downtown of Binondo and Santa…

Espina Medical · Espina Medical Equipment Trading

Espina Medical Supply Co (operating under registered entities including Espina Medical Equipment Trading) is a specialized healthcare equipment distributor and…

Republic Act No. 11038 · RA 11038

The Expanded NIPAS Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11038, officially "An Act Declaring Protected Areas and…

Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes (the series, plural) · National Exhibition of Fine Arts (English label of its Wikidata item)

The Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes was Spain's national fine arts exhibition — a juried competitive exhibition held principally in…

Francisco Sionil José · Frankie Sionil José

Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022), who wrote as F. Sionil José and was known to…

Fabian de la Rosa · Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto

Fabián de la Rosa (born Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto; May 5, 1869, Paco, Manila – December 14, 1937,…

Far East Bank · FEBTC

The Far East Bank and Trust Company (FEBTC) was a Philippine commercial bank that grew, in four decades from its…

Estado Federal de Visayas (Spanish designation) · Pederal nga Estado sang Visayas (Hiligaynon designation)

The Federal State of the Visayas (Spanish: Estado Federal de Visayas; Hiligaynon: Pederal nga Estado sang Visayas; Cebuano: Pederal nga…

Partido Federal — the Spanish-era styling of the party's name · Federal Party — the English rendering used in American-period reporting

The Federalista Party (Spanish-era name Partido Federal) was a Philippine political party founded in Manila on December 23, 1900, one…

Felipe Buencamino y Siojo (full Spanish-style name) · Felipe Buencamino, Sr. (disambiguating form, distinguishing him from his son and namesake)

Felipe Buencamino y Siojo (August 23, 1848, San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan – February 6, 1929, Manila) was a Filipino…

Felipe G. Calderón — common short form · Felipe Calderón y Roca — full name with maternal surname

Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca (April 4, 1868, Santa Cruz de Malabon, now Tanza, Cavite – June 6, 1908, Manila),…

Felipe de León y Padilla · Felipe Padilla de Leon

Felipe Padilla de León (May 1, 1912 – December 5, 1992) was a Filipino composer, conductor, and scholar — born…

Félix R. Hidalgo — the short styling of Philippine commemoration · Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla — the full Spanish-style form

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo (in full Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla; born in Binondo, Manila, on February 21, 1855; died in…

Ferdinand Johann Franz Blumentritt — full name recorded in the standard references · The professor of Leitmeritz — the styling Philippine biographical literature attaches to him

Ferdinand Blumentritt (September 10, 1853, Prague – September 20, 1913, Leitmeritz, Bohemia; Czech: Litoměřice) was an Austrian teacher, ethnographer, and…

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto — the full Spanish-style name · The Grand Old Man of Philippine Art — the accolade conferred at the Manila Hilton in 1969

Fernando Amorsolo (born Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto; May 30, 1892, Paco, Manila – April 24, 1972, Quezon City) was a…

Sergeant Lamadrid · Ferdinand La Madrid

Fernando La Madrid (birth date and origin unrecorded; killed January 21, 1872) was the mestizo sergeant of the Cavite arsenal…

Manila–Dagupan railway (English designation) · Manila–Dagupan Railroad

The Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan — the Manila–Dagupan railway, the first railway in the Philippines — was the 195-kilometer…

Field of Dreams · Field of Dreams Orphanage

The Field of Dreams is a Philippine orphanage (residential childcare facility) located in Biao Guianga, Tugbok District, Davao City, Philippines.…

Fire Code · Fire Code of the Philippines

The Fire Code of the Philippines, officially designated as Republic Act No. 9514, is the national law regulating fire safety…

Malolos Republic · Philippine Republic (República Filipina) — formal designation

The First Philippine Republic, formally the Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina) and commonly called the Malolos Republic, was the unrecognized…

Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 · Republic Act No. 8550

The Fisheries Code of the Philippines is the short title of Republic Act No. 8550, officially "An Act Providing for…

Fitrah (app) · Fitrah app

Fitrah.me (Fitrah) is a free web and mobile application for Muslims that combines worship tools with community features, developed as…

Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas — the Filipino styling · The Three Stars and a Sun flag — the early popular name for the banner Aguinaldo brought home

The Flag of the Philippines (Filipino Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas) is the national flag of the Philippines — a horizontal…

Flor Ramos Contemplacion — full name

Flor Ramos Contemplacion (January 7, 1953 – March 17, 1995) was a Filipina domestic worker from San Pablo, Laguna, convicted…

The concrete battleship — the standard nickname · El Fraile Island — the islet's own name, used for the Wikidata item

Fort Drum, nicknamed the "concrete battleship," is the reinforced-concrete sea fort built by the United States Army on El Fraile…

Fuerte de San Felipe — the Spanish-era designation · Fuerte San Felipe Neri — the Spanish Wikipedia article's styling of the fort

Fort San Felipe (Spanish: Fuerte de San Felipe) is the Spanish military fortress at the historic port town of Cavite…

Francisco Carreón y Marcos · General Francisco Carreón

Francisco Carreón y Marcos (born October 5, 1868, in Cotabato, Mindanao; died between 1939 and 1941 — the Wikidata record…

Francisco Sendrijas — the recorded real name · Dagohoy — the amulet name that displaced it

Francisco Dagohoy (born Francisco Sendrijas, c. 1724, Inabanga, Bohol) was the Boholano cabeza de barangay who led the Dagohoy Rebellion…

Francisco Delgado y Afan — the record's full name · Francisco Afan Delgado — the common modern styling

Francisco Delgado — in full, Francisco Delgado y Afan (January 25, 1886, Bulacan – October 27, 1964, Manila) — was…

Don Francisco Maniago (courtesy title in the town record) · Chief of Mexico, Pampanga

Francisco Maniago was a Kapampangan chieftain of Mexico, Pampanga, the leader of the Pampanga Revolt of 1660 — the rising…

Friar Botod

Fray Botod is the satirical narrative written by Graciano López Jaena — this wiki's entry on the propagandist documents his…

Frederick Steven Roach · Freddie

Freddie Roach (born Frederick Steven Roach, March 5, 1960, in Dedham, Massachusetts) is an American boxing trainer and former professional…

Galicano C. Apacible — the form used on his National Historical Institute marker · "physician, propagandist, diplomat, legislator, and patriot" — the inscription of his 2003 NHI marker in Balayan, Batangas

Galicano Apacible (June 25, 1864 – March 2, 1949) was a Filipino physician, propagandist, diplomat, and legislator — a cousin…

García Jofré de Loaysa — the Spanish-period spelling carried by the Spanish Wikipedia and the older historiography · Fray García Jofré de Loaysa — the styling of the Spanish account, honoring his standing as a commander of the Order of St John (the Order of Malta)

García Jofre de Loaísa (Spanish: García Jofré de Loaysa; born in Ciudad Real, in or about 1490 — died July…

National Living Treasures Award · GAMABA — the standard acronym

The Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA), the National Living Treasures Award, is the Philippine state's highest recognition for masters…

Ligligan Parul — the Kapampangan designation · Ligligan Parul Sampernandu — the full Kapampangan styling with the city's name

The Giant Lantern Festival (Kapampangan: Ligligan Parul) is the annual lantern competition held in mid-December in the City of San…

Gilas · Smart Gilas

Gilas Pilipinas is the name of the Philippines' national basketball teams, used above all for the men's national team that…

Manlilikha ng Bayan (1993) — his formal title as a National Living Treasure · GAMABA awardee, 1993 first batch — the award's acronym-based reference

Ginaw Bilog (January 3, 1953 – June 3, 2003) was a Hanunuo Mangyan poet of the ambahan — the seven-syllable…

CPJ Impunity Index

The Global Impunity Index is a ranking published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that lists countries where the…

GomBurZa — the stylized syllabic form of the portmanteau · GOMBURZA — the all-capital styling common in commemorative use

Gomburza is the compound name — a portmanteau of their surnames, Gomburza — for the three secular priests Mariano Gómez…

GSIS · Paseguruhan ng mga Naglilingkod sa Pamahalaan

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is the Philippine government's social insurance institution for public-sector employees — a government-owned and…

Graciano López y Jaena (baptismal styling; Spanish surname order) · Diego Laura (pen name at La Solidaridad)

Graciano López Jaena (December 18, 1856 – January 20, 1896), born Graciano López y Jaena at Jaro, Iloilo, to Plácido…

Tokyo Conference · The Tokyo Conference of November 1943

The Greater East Asia Conference — also called the Tokyo Conference — was the assembly held in Tokyo on November…

Oriang — childhood nickname · Aling Oriang — later-life honorific

Gregoria de Jesús y Álvarez (May 9, 1875, Caloocan – March 15, 1943, Manila), nicknamed "Oriang," was a Filipino revolutionary…

Gregorio S. Araneta · Gregorio Araneta y Soriano — the full Spanish-style name

Gregorio Araneta (born Gregorio Araneta y Soriano; April 19, 1869, Molo, Iloilo – May 9, 1930, Manila) was a Filipino…

Goyong · The Boy General

Gregorio H. del Pilar y Sempio (November 14, 1875, San Jose, Bulacan (now Bulakan), Bulacan – December 2, 1899, Tirad…

Guillermo Rafael Masangkay · General Guillermo Masangkay

Guillermo Masangkay (full name Guillermo Rafael Masangkay; 1867–1963) was a Filipino revolutionary — a boatman from Tondo, Manila, without formal…

The MT Solar 1 oil spill — the vessel-based name for the incident · The Solar 1 disaster — the common press shorthand

The Guimaras oil spill was the sinking of the oil tanker MT Solar 1 around midnight on August 11, 2006…

The Hague Joint Declaration

The Hague Joint Declaration is the framework agreement of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the…

Sovereign Tagalog Nation — the standard English rendering · Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People — the literal rendering

The Haring Bayang Katagalugan ("Sovereign Tagalog Nation," also rendered "Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People" and shortened Haring Bayan) is…

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo — the full name of record · Hernándo R. Ocampo — the styling used in the National Artist rolls

Hernando Ocampo — Hernando Ruiz Ocampo (April 28, 1911 – December 28, 1978) — was a Filipino painter and writer,…

Homeschool Coalition · Home Education Association

A Homeschool Association is an organized network, non-profit group, or coalition of families engaged in home education in the Philippines.…

Hubert Jeffrey Pagaspas Webb · Hubert Jeffrey Webb y Pagaspas

Hubert Webb — born Hubert Jeffrey Pagaspas Webb on November 7, 1968, in San Diego, California — is a Filipino…

Huks · Huk

The Hukbalahap — Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon, "People's Army Against the Japanese" — was the anti-Japanese peasant guerrilla…

HMB — the standard initialism · People's Liberation Army — the English rendering of the Filipino name

The Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB, "People's Liberation Army") was the postwar reincarnation of the Hukbalahap — the Central Luzon…

Ipugao / Ipugo — the ethnonym's native root · Ayangan — one of the principal subgroup identities, with Tuwali and Kalanguya (Kallahan)

The Ifugao are the terrace-building ethnolinguistic people of Ifugao province in the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, Philippines — the…

Cordilleran peoples (recent collective usage) · Igorots (Spanish-era spellings include Igorrote, Igolot, Ygolot)

The Igorot are the umbrella grouping of the indigenous peoples of the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, Philippines — an…

The enlightened ones / enlightened class (literal rendering of the Spanish) · Filipino intelligentsia of the late Spanish period

The ilustrados — Spanish for "the enlightened," "learned," or "erudite ones" — were the educated Filipino middle and upper class…

Imbestigador ng Bayan — title used for the September 2, 2023 tribute to Mike Enriquez

Imbestigador is the investigative public-affairs program of GMA Network — an investigative docudrama produced by GMA Public Affairs that debuted…

Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal · Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal

Inday Badiday (born Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal; August 6, 1944, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental – September 26, 2003, Quezon City) was…

Araw ng Kasarinlán — the official Filipino designation · Araw ng Kalayaan — "Day of Freedom," the common Filipino styling

Independence Day (Philippines) — Filipino Araw ng Kasarinlán, also called Araw ng Kalayaan ("Day of Freedom") — is the Philippine…

Surian ng Wikang Pambansa (the Filipino name, abbreviated SWP) · Institute of Philippine Languages (the post-1987 renaming under Executive Order No. 117)

The Institute of National Language (Filipino: Surian ng Wikang Pambansa) was the Commonwealth-era agency created by Commonwealth Act No. 184,…

ICH

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is the UNESCO-defined category of living culture — "the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as…

IBOF · Bamboo Organ Festival

The International Bamboo Organ Festival (IBOF) is the annual music festival held each February at St. Joseph Parish Church in…

IR8-288-3 (breeding-line designation) · Miracle rice

IR8 is a high-yielding, semi-dwarf rice variety — a cultivated variety (cultivar) of Oryza sativa, the Asian cultivated rice of…

Don Belong (nickname) · Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino (full name)

Isabelo de los Reyes (July 7, 1864, Vigan, Ilocos Sur – October 10, 1938, Manila), nicknamed Don Belong, was a…

Isidro de Castro y Cisneros · Colonel Isidro de Castro

Isidro de Castro — in full Isidro de Castro y Cisneros — was a Spanish Army officer, styled colonel in…

ISIS · ISIL

The Islamic State — widely known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh — is a transnational Sunni jihadist organization that grew…

Abu Abdullah al-Filipini · Isnilon Totoni Hapilon

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (born March 10, 1968, by his school records, or March 18, 1966, by the FBI's listing —…

Jabidah — the covert unit designation whose name the event carries · Operation Merdeka / Project Merdeka — the covert Sabah operation for which the trainees were recruited

The Jabidah Massacre is the killing of Moro military trainees on Corregidor Island in March 1968 — the event fixed…

Jacinto Lumberas · J. Lumbreras

Jacinto Lumbreras was a Katipunan leader of the Magdiwang faction in Cavite at the height of the Philippine Revolution against…

Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario · Padre Jacinto Zamora

Jacinto Zamora (in full, Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario; August 14, 1835, Pandacan, Manila – February 17, 1872, Bagumbayan, Manila)…

Mary Jane Guck · Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck

Jaclyn Jose — the screen name of Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck (October 21, 1963 – March 2, 2024) —…

Jacob Hurd Smith (full name) · "Hell-Roaring Jake" / "Hell Roaring Jake" (press sobriquet, for extravagant language)

Jacob H. Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a United States Army brigadier general from Jackson County,…

Jaime Carlos de Veyra y Díaz — the full baptismal styling, paternal surname de Veyra, maternal surname Díaz · Jaime de Veyra — the common short form in Spanish- and English-language references

Jaime C. de Veyra (Jaime Carlos de Veyra y Díaz; November 4, 1873 – March 7, 1963) was a Leyte-born…

Ka Jimmy · Jimmy Tadeo

Jaime "Ka Jimmy" San Luis Tadeo (March 28, 1938 – March 26, 2023) was a Filipino peasant leader, the founding…

Hajji Jeffrey Prevendido · Jeffrey A. Prevendido

Hajji Jeffrey Andante Prevendido is a Filipino Medical Technologist, public-health practitioner, and halal-industry entrepreneur based in Davao City, Philippines. He…

Jesse Manalastas Robredo (full given name at birth) · Mayor Jesse Robredo (Naga City, six terms)

Jesse Manalastas Robredo (May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was a Filipino local-government leader and cabinet secretary whose nineteen…

Star witness in the Vizconde massacre · NBI informant in the Vizconde case

Jessica Alfaro is the Filipino woman known to the Philippine judicial record as the National Bureau of Investigation informant who…

Society of Jesus — the formal name of the order · S.J. — the post-nominal initials of its members

The Jesuits — the Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; S.J.), founded by Ignatius of Loyola and approved by Pope…

Juan Serrano — the Spanish form of his name · Juan Rodríguez Serrano — the full Spanish form

João Serrão — in full João Rodrigues Serrão, Spanish Juan Rodríguez Serrano; born in the fifteenth century at Fregenal de…

Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J. — the byline of his books and legal scholarship · Fr. Joaquin Bernas — the press styling of his later public career

Joaquin G. Bernas (born July 8, 1932 in Baao, Camarines Sur — died March 6, 2021 at the Ateneo Jesuit…

Joaquín Miguel Elizalde — the full English-form name under which his American congressional service is recorded · Joaquín M. Elizalde — the diplomatic-era signature form

Joaquín Elizalde — in full Joaquín Miguel Elizalde y Díaz-Moreu, and known personally as "Mike" (Manila, August 2, 1896 –…

John D Rockefeller · John Davison Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839, Richford, New York – May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, Florida) was an American industrialist…

John & Marsha (film-series spelling) · John and Marsha

John en Marsha is the landmark Philippine television family sitcom that starred Dolphy as John H. Puruntong and Nida Blanca…

Jonathan M. Wainwright — short form of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV · "Skinny" — West Point and Army nickname, earned at six feet two inches and 125 pounds

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (August 23, 1883 – September 2, 1953), nicknamed "Skinny," was a United States Army general who…

William A. Jones Memorial Bridge — the official designation carried in the multilingual record · Puente Jones — the Spanish-era styling

The Jones Bridge — officially the William A. Jones Memorial Bridge — is the crossing of the Pasig River that…

Jose Nepomuceno · José Nepomuceno y Zialcita

José Nepomuceno (José Nepomuceno y Zialcita; born May 15, 1893 in Manila, then the Captaincy General of the Philippines —…

José Paciano Laurel — his full Spanish-style name, the form carried in the Library of Congress heading · José Paciano Laurel y García — the Spanish-era styling of his era's records

Jose P. Laurel (born José Paciano Laurel y García; March 9, 1891, Tanauan, Batangas – November 6, 1959, Manila) was…

José Palma · Jose Palma y Velásquez

Jose Palma — in full José Palma y Velásquez (June 3, 1876 – February 12, 1903) — was a Filipino…

José de Luzuriaga — the short form carried as his Wikipedia article title · José Ruiz de Luzuriaga y Guiquín — full patronymic

José Ruiz de Luzuriaga — full name José Ruiz de Luzuriaga y Guiquín (January 10, 1843 – July 5, 1921)…

Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken · Josefina

Josephine Bracken — born Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken on August 9, 1876 at Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong, to Irish parents,…

Juan Anacleto Araneta y Torres · Tan Juan

Juan Araneta (July 13, 1852 – October 3, 1924), fully Juan Anacleto Araneta y Torres and remembered in Negros as…

Juan M. Arellano — the conventional styling of his professional years and the Wikidata label · Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán — the full Spanish-style name

Juan Arellano (Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán; April 25, 1888, Tondo, Manila – December 5, 1960, aged 72) was…

Juan Feleo of Nueva Ecija — reference form in the peasant-movement literature · KPMP general secretary — organizational designation from the late 1920s

Juan Feleo (May 1, 1896 – August 24, 1946) was a Filipino peasant leader of Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija —…

Juan Luna y Novicio (short Spanish-style form) · Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio (full birth name)

Juan Luna (in full Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio; born in Badoc, Ilocos Norte, on October 25, 1857…

Juan Martin Flavier (full name) · Johnny Flavier

Juan Martin Flavier (June 23, 1935 – October 30, 2014) was a Filipino physician, public-health administrator, and senator whose career…

Juan F. Nakpil — his professional styling · Juan Felipe Nakpil y de Jesús — full baptismal name

Juan Nakpil (born Juan Felipe Nakpil y de Jesús, May 26, 1899, Quiapo, Manila – May 7, 1986, Manila) was…

Juan Sebastián del Cano — the older Spanish rendering of the surname · Juan Sebastián Elkano — the modern Basque spelling

Juan Sebastián Elcano (born c. 1486–1487 at Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Basque country; died August 4, 1526, in the Pacific Ocean) was…

Julián Felipe · Julián Reyes Felipe

Julian Felipe (also written Julián Reyes Felipe; January 28, 1861 – October 2, 1944) was a Filipino composer, pianist, organist,…

Julio Nakpil y García · J. Giliw

Julio Nakpil y García (May 22, 1867, Quiapo, Manila – November 2, 1960, Quiapo) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and…

Julio Rosales y Ras — the Spanish-style full name · Julio Ras Rosales — the Filipino name-order form the reference article carries

Julio Rosales y Ras (September 18, 1906 – June 2, 1983) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church…

KM · Patriotic Youth

Kabataang Makabayan (KM, "Patriotic Youth") is a Filipino nationalist youth organization founded on November 30, 1964 — Bonifacio Day, chosen…

Kalayaan · Ang Kalayaan — the title as registered in the Wikidata authority record

Kalayaan ("Freedom") was the official organ of the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary society that launched the 1896 Philippine Revolution against…

Calesa — the Spanish and Philippine Spanish form from which the Tagalog name descends · Karitela or karetela — the larger type, often loosely called kalesa

A kalesa (Philippine Spanish calesa, from Spanish calesa, itself from French calèche, ultimately from Czech kolesa) is a two-wheeled, horse-drawn…

iKalinga

The Kalinga people are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Cordillera mountain range of northern Luzon, Philippines — one of…

Divine Wind · Shinpu Tokubetsu Kogekitai

Kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, "divine wind") was the World War II tactic of deliberately crashing explosive-laden aircraft into Allied ships, first…

Lutung Kapampangan · Kapampangan cooking

Kapampangan cuisine is the culinary tradition of the Kapampangan people of Pampanga province in Central Luzon — a repertoire the…

The Finding of the Santo Niño — the English rendering the Basilica's literature uses · The rediscovery of the Santo Niño de Cebú — the standard account's term

The Kaplag — Cebuano for "finding" or "discovery" — is the name given to the rediscovery of the Santo Niño…

Primer of the Katipunan (English rendering) · Kartilla ng Katipunan (Spanish-derived variant spelling)

The Kartilya ng Katipunan ("Primer of the Katipunan") was the guidebook for new members of the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary…

Kentex factory fire — the common short form in Philippine news usage · Kentex Manufacturing fire — the styling after the corporate name

The Kentex Slipper Factory Fire was the fire that destroyed the two-storey rubber-footwear factory of Kentex Manufacturing Corporation in Barangay…

Kilometre Zero · Km 0

Kilometer Zero (also spelled Kilometre Zero, abbreviated Km 0) is the Philippines' zero-mile marker for road distances — a small…

Peasant Movement of the Philippines

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP; "Peasant Movement of the Philippines") is the largest national federation of peasant organizations in…

Korean Armistice Agreement — the formal documentary title · Armistice of Panmunjom — the signing-place styling

The Korean Armistice Agreement, signed at Panmunjom on July 27, 1953 and effective at 10:00 p.m. that night, twelve hours…

Kolintang · Kulintangan

The kulintang is a row of five to nine graduated knobbed (bossed) gongs laid horizontally on a wooden frame and…

Kune Labs Philippines OPC

Kune Labs Philippines (OPC) is a Philippine venture in sustainable protein production — specifically rabbit farming — documented among the…

Kuroshio — the standard short form · Black Stream — the English calque of the Japanese name

The Kuroshio Current (Japanese 黒潮, kuro shio, "black tide" — hence the English Black Stream; also the Japan Current, 日本海流…

La Independencia was the revolutionary newspaper founded at Manila on September 3, 1898 by General Antonio Luna — a four-page…

The Philippine League (English rendering) · Liga Filipina (short form)

La Liga Filipina ("The Philippine League") was a Filipino civic association founded by José Rizal on July 3, 1892 at…

La Loma Catholic Cemetery · Campo Santo de La Loma (Spanish name)

La Loma Cemetery — formally the La Loma Catholic Cemetery, in Spanish Campo Santo de La Loma — is a…

The Philippine Revolution

La Revolución Filipina is the political memoir of Apolinario Mabini — the "Brains of the Revolution" and first Prime Minister…

La Solidaridad (Spanish styling of the masthead) · The organ of the Propaganda Movement — its standing description in Philippine historiography

La Solidaridad was the official newspaper and organ of the Propaganda Movement, the campaign of Filipino reformists in Spain for…

Lake Sebu · Municipality of Lake Sebu

Lake Sebu, officially the Municipality of Lake Sebu, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the…

The Dreamweaver — the name drawn from the dream-origin of her designs · A "T'boli princess" — the description used in biographical accounts of the Lake Sebu weaver ([Wikipedia — Lang Dulay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Dulay "Lang Dulay — Wikipedia"))

Lang Dulay (born August 3, 1928 in standard references, though reports at her death gave her age as 91; died…

Çilapulapu — Pigafetta's recorded form, the only undisputed primary-source mention · Cali Pulaco — the form in Carlos Calao's 1614 poem; Sandoval's 1604 account writes "Calipulapo"

Lapu-Lapu (fl. 1521; birth and death dates unknown) was the Mactan chieftain whose refusal of fealty to Ferdinand Magellan and…

Lapu-Lapu Day is the annual Philippine commemoration of April 27, the date of the Battle of Mactan of 1521, in…

Bamboo Organ (Las Piñas) · Bamboo Organ (common short form and Wikipedia article title)

The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ is the 1824 pipe organ of the St. Joseph Parish Church in Las Piñas, Metro…

LPPCHEA — the standard abbreviation · Freedom Island — the common name of the Parañaque-side island, often used for the whole sanctuary

The Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) is the protected coastal wetland on the shores of Manila Bay…

Leandro V. Locsin — the byline styling of his professional record · Lindy — the nickname the standard biography records

Leandro Locsin (Leandro V. Locsin; born August 15, 1928, in Silay, Negros Occidental — died November 15, 1994, at Makati…

General Leonard Wood — the styling of his Cuban and Philippine commands · Major General Leonard Wood — his rank as recorded at the 1921 Wood–Forbes Mission

Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860, Winchester, New Hampshire – August 7, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts) was a United States Army general…

Leonardo Salvador Sarao — his full name in the Filipino naming convention, Salvador being the maternal surname · Mang Nardo — the familiar Tagalog styling recorded by his family and employees

Leonardo S. Sarao (born Leonardo Salvador Sarao; April 13, 1921, Imus, Cavite – July 31, 2001, Las Piñas, Metro Manila)…

Heroes' Cemetery · Cemetery of Heroes — the literal English rendering of the name

The Libingan ng mga Bayani ("Cemetery of Heroes") is the national cemetery of the Philippines, occupying a reserved tract of…

Liliosa Rapi Hilao · Liliosa R. Hilao

Liliosa Rapi Hilao (March 14, 1950 – April 5, 1973) was a Filipina student journalist and activist, a communication arts…

Lin Feng (林鳳) — the Mandarin pinyin form of his Chinese name · Lim Hong — a Hokkien-derived romanization

Limahong (Chinese: 林鳳; also Lin Feng or Lim Hong) was a Chinese pirate and warlord of the late Ming dynasty,…

Catalino Ortiz Brocka (full name) · National Artist for Film (title, conferred posthumously, 1997)

Lino Brocka, born Catalino Ortiz Brocka (April 3, 1939, Pilar, Sorsogon – May 22, 1991, Quezon City, on the standard…

Loaysa expedition — the older transliteration carried by the Wikidata label · The García Jofre de Loaísa expedition — the commander's full-name styling of the Spanish account

The Loaísa Expedition — the fleet of seven ships and 450 men that left A Coruña on July 24, 1525…

Loboc · Municipality of Loboc

Loboc, officially the Municipality of Loboc, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…

San Pedro Apostol Parish Church — the parish's formal styling · Parish Church of San Pedro and San Pablo of Loboc — the name in its National Cultural Treasure listing

Loboc Church — the Parish Church of San Pedro and San Pablo of Loboc, formally the San Pedro Apostol Parish…

Lorenza Mariño Agoncillo · Enchang

Lorenza Mariño Agoncillo (September 5, 1890 – September 2, 1972) was the eldest daughter of the diplomat Felipe Agoncillo and…

San Lorenzo Ruiz · Saint Lorenzo Ruiz

Lorenzo Ruiz (November 28, 1594 – September 29, 1637) was a Filipino Catholic layman, martyr, and the first Filipino saint.…

Lubao · Municipality of Lubao

Lubao, officially the Municipality of Lubao, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…

Lumad · Katawhang Lumad ("indigenous people" — the full form from which the short form comes)

Lumad is the collective self-designation for the non-Islamized indigenous peoples of Mindanao, the Philippines — a Cebuano word meaning "native"…

MABINI — the acronym by which the group is almost always cited · Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc. — the corporate styling recorded by the ICJ mission

The Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., universally known by its acronym MABINI, is a Philippine lawyers'…

MABINI · MABINI — the acronym by which the group is almost always cited

The Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., universally known by its acronym MABINI, is a Philippine lawyers'…

Macliing Dulag — the spelling carried in Wikidata and much of the literature · Pangat Macli-ing — the styling that carries his traditional office

Macli-ing Dulag (birthdate unrecorded — contemporaries placed him in his early twenties during the Second World War, in which he…

Liberty Shrine — statutory name under RA 5695 · Lapu-Lapu Shrine / Lapulapu Monument — popular names keyed to the statue

The Mactan Shrine, formally the Liberty Shrine, is a memorial park in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, Cebu, marking "the…

Sangguniang Magdalo (Magdalo Council) · Magdalo Council

The Magdalo was one of the two great councils (sanggunian) through which the Katipunan organized the Philippine Revolution in Cavite…

Sangguniang Magdiwang (Magdiwang Council) · Magdiwang Council

The Magdiwang was the larger of the two great Katipunan councils (sanggunian) that organized the Philippine Revolution in Cavite after…

Magellan–Elcano expedition — the naming now standard in Spanish and Quincentennial usage · Armada de Molucca (Armada del Maluco) — the fleet's contemporary designation for the Spice Islands it sought

The Magellan expedition — also styled the Magellan–Elcano expedition or the Armada de Molucca — was the Spanish fleet of…

Rizal's third novel — the standing designation in Philippine literary historiography · Borrador del Noli me Tángere — the National Library catalogue label under which the papers long hid

Makamisa ("after Mass") is the heading of the unfinished third novel of José Rizal — a work he began in…

Makabayang Katipunan ng mga Pilipino · Kalipunang Makabayan ng mga Pilipino

The Makapili (Makabayang Katipunan ng mga Pilipino, "Patriotic Association of Filipinos") was a Filipino collaborationist militia organized under Japanese sponsorship…

Revolutionary Congress (Congreso Revolucionario) · National Assembly — formal designation

The Malolos Congress (Spanish: Congreso de Malolos), formally the National Assembly and also known as the Revolutionary Congress (Congreso Revolucionario),…

Political Constitution of 1899 (Constitución Política de la República Filipina) — formal title · Malolos Constitution of 1899

The Malolos Constitution, formally the Political Constitution of 1899 (Spanish: Constitución Política de la República Filipina), was the constitution of…

Mambo Magsaysay is the 1953 Philippine presidential campaign jingle composed by Raul Manglapus for the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay, set…

SMMITT — the acronym of its formal Filipino name · Federation of Drivers, Commuters, and United Transportation Terminals — the English rendering of its name

Manibela — formally the Samahang Manibela, Mananakay at Nagkaisang Terminal ng Transportasyon (SMMITT), rendered in English as the "Federation of…

Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — the formal title · Manila Metropolitan Cathedral — the metropolitan designation

The Manila Cathedral, formally the Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, is the cathedral church of the…

Galleon Trade · La Nao de China — "the China ship," the New Spanish popular name

The Manila galleon (Spanish galeón de Manila; known in New Spain as La Nao de China, "the China ship") was…

Quirino Grandstand hostage taking — the styling derived from the site · Rizal Park hostage crisis — the styling derived from the park containing the grandstand

The Manila hostage crisis was the bus hijacking and police siege of August 23, 2010, at the grounds of the…

President Manuel A. Roxas · Manuel Acuña Roxas — his full name, the form carried in the Library of Congress heading

Manuel Roxas (January 1, 1892, Capiz, Capiz – April 15, 1948, Clark Air Base, Angeles) was a Filipino statesman, the…

Doña Marcela · Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo

Marcela Agoncillo (born Marcela Coronel Mariño; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946), honored as the Mother of the Philippine…

Plaridel · Plaridel (principal pen name)

Marcelo H. del Pilar (August 30, 1850 – July 4, 1896), born Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán at sitio…

Lola Rosa · Maria Rosa Henson

María Rosa Luna Henson (December 5, 1927 – August 18, 1997), known to the Philippines as Lola Rosa ("Grandma Rosa"),…

Maria Victoria Evangelista · Ma'am Maria Victoria Evangelista (client / honorific reference)

Maria Victoria C. Evangelista is a Filipino business executive and cosmetics-industry entrepreneur based in Davao City, Philippines. She is the…

Sr. Mariani Dimaranan · Mariani Cuevas Dimaranan

Mariani Dimaranan — in full Mariani Cuevas Dimaranan, SFIC (February 1, 1925 – December 17, 2005) — was a Filipino…

Mariano Malia Álvarez — full name with maternal surname · Mainam — his Katipunan nom de guerre, the signature he placed on the Acta de Tejeros

Mariano Álvarez y Malia (September 3, 1842, Tierra Alta, Noveleta, Cavite – August 25, 1924, San Roque, Cavite) was a…

Mariano Gómez · Mariano Gomes

Mariano Gomez (born Mariano Gómez y Custodio; later restyled Mariano Gómes de los Ángeles; August 2, 1799, Santa Cruz, Manila…

Mariano Ponce y Collantes — full name in the Spanish convention (paternal surname Ponce, maternal surname Collantes) · Naning — childhood nickname carried into his pen names

Mariano Ponce (born March 22, 1863, Baliwag, Bulacan – died May 23, 1918, Hong Kong), full name Mariano Ponce y…

Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca · Mariano Ricafort y Palacín

Mariano Ricafort — in full Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca (February 20, 1776 – October 16, 1846) — was a…

Labong (his Katipunan nom-de-guerre, "bamboo shoots") · Mariano Trías y Closas (full Spanish-style name)

Mariano Trias (October 12, 1868, San Francisco de Malabon, Cavite [now General Trias] – February 22, 1914, Manila) was a…

Maribojoc · Municipality of Maribojoc

Maribojoc, officially the Municipality of Maribojoc, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…

Fray Martín de Rada, O.S.A. · Martín de Herrada (variant spelling in the early documents)

Martín de Rada (1533–1578) was a Spanish Augustinian friar — mathematician, linguist, and missionary — who was one of the…

The Poet General · Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma

Masaharu Homma (November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded…

Islamic State of Lanao · Dawlah Islamiya

The Maute Group — known since 2019 as the Islamic State of Lanao and commonly called Dawlah Islamiya — is…

Maximo Villaflor Soliven — full name · Maximo V. Soliven — the Library of Congress authorized form

Max Solivén (Maximo Villaflor Soliven; September 4, 1929, Manila – November 24, 2006, Narita, Japan) was a Filipino journalist and…

Dr. Máximo Viola · Máximo Viola y Sison — birth name recorded by DBpedia

Máximo Viola y Sison (October 17, 1857 – September 3, 1933) was a Filipino physician, propagandist, and writer from San…

Carmela Corro Tiangco — her birth name, the form of formal records · Mel — her single-name screen identity in Filipino broadcasting

Mel Tiangco (birth name Carmela Corro Tiangco; born August 10 in Bataan, with reference sources variously reporting 1949 and 1955…

Tandang Sora · Melchora Aquino de Ramos

Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 – 1919), universally known as Tandang Sora, was a Filipino revolutionary heroine remembered as the…

Melecio Severino y Yorac — the patronymic carried in the governors' register · Melecio Severino é Yorac — the spelling carried in the Republic of Negros leaders table

Melecio Severino — carried in one register as Melecio Severino é Yorac (1866 – May 25, 1915) — was a…

Black Thursday · Mendiola massacre of 1987

The Mendiola Massacre was the killing of protesting farmers by state security forces on Mendiola Street, San Miguel, Manila, on…

Sangley mestizo · Mestisong Sangley (Tagalog form)

Mestizo de Sangley (also Sangley mestizo, mestisong Sangley, chino mestizo, or Chinese mestizo) is the Spanish-colonial ethnoclass designation for a…

The Metro Manila Council (MMC) is the governing board and policy-making body of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), created…

MMTC 2023 · Single Ticketing System

The Metro Manila Traffic Code of 2023 (MMTC 2023) is the uniform traffic code for Metropolitan Manila, adopted by the…

Mi último pensamiento — the title Mariano Ponce gave the poem when he first had it printed in Hong Kong in 1897 · Último adiós — the title under which Fr. Mariano Dacanay published it in La Independencia on September 25, 1898

Mi último adiós (Spanish, "My Last Farewell") is the farewell poem of José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines,…

Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church — the formal parish designation · Church of Santo Tomas de Villanueva — the name the UNESCO serial listing carries

Miagao Church, formally the Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church (Parokya ni Santo Tomas de Villanueva; Parroquia de Santo Tomás…

1947 Military Bases Agreement · RP-US Military Bases Agreement

The Military Bases Agreement (MBA) — formally the Agreement Concerning Military Bases, signed at Malacañang in Manila on March 14,…

Maluku Islands · Spice Islands

The Moluccas — the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, remembered as the Spice Islands — are an archipelago of roughly…

The Moro people are the Muslim peoples of the Philippines — thirteen Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan,…

Vector (post-1980 renaming, before December 1987) · Oil Nic-II (name at completion, 1980)

The MT Vector was a small Philippine-registered motor tanker — 629 gross register tons, 51.7 meters long, built at Manila…

Museum-Library of the Philippines (English rendering) · Museo Biblioteca de Filipinas (as styled in the 1887 royal decree)

The Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas ("Museum-Library of the Philippines") was the museum and library founded at Manila under Spanish rule by…

Doña Paz — the styling of the vessel's name in most Philippine reporting · Himeyuri Maru — her original name in Japanese service, 1963–1975

The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry — built in Japan in 1963 and operated by Sulpicio Lines…

Princess of the Stars — the common short styling · Ferry Lilac — the ship's name as built in Japan in 1984

MV Princess of the Stars was a 193-meter roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry of Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan in 1984…

Naic Agreement (short form) · The Naic military pact (descriptive variant)

The Naic Military Agreement is the document signed at Naic, Cavite — the town covered by this wiki's entry on…

Napoleon V. Abueva — the signature and citation form used in his proclamation · Billy Abueva — the name he was fondly called by

Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva (January 26, 1930, Tagbilaran, Bohol – February 16, 2018, Quezon City) was a Filipino sculptor known…

Narciso Claveria · Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa

Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa — born Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, on May 2, 1795;…

Pambansang Sinupan ng Pilipinas (Filipino designation) · NAP

The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP; Filipino: Pambansang Sinupan ng Pilipinas) is the government agency mandated to collect, store,…

The Assembly — the standard short form of the Commonwealth era, 1935–1941 · First National Assembly (1935–1938) and Second National Assembly (1938–1941) — the sequential designations of the two Commonwealth assemblies

The National Assembly of the Philippines is the name carried by three distinct legislatures in the country's constitutional history. The…

National Cultural Heritage Act · Republic Act No. 10066

The National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 10066) is the Philippines' principal statute for the protection and…

Cinco de Noviembre · Al Cinco de Noviembre — commemorative styling of the date

The Negros Revolution, commemorated in Negros as Cinco de Noviembre, was the uprising of November 1898 by which the people…

NBP (standard abbreviation) · Bilibid (colloquial short form)

The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is the national penitentiary of the Philippines, located on a 5,310,872-square-meter reservation in Muntinlupa, then…

Bagong Lipunan

The New Society (Filipino: Bagong Lipunan) was the program and governing idea with which President Ferdinand Marcos described and justified…

Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin (full name) · Nicomedes "Nick" M. Joaquin

Nick Joaquin, born Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin (May 4, 1917, Paco, Manila – April 29, 2004, San Juan, Metro Manila), was…

Nicolás Gólez y Coloso · Nicolas Golez — spelling used in Negrense commemorative accounts

Nicolás Gólez — in full Nicolás Gólez y Coloso, as the record of the Negros Republic styles him — was…

Ninay — accentless spelling, used for the 1908 Tagalog edition and in general reference · Nínay (costumbres filipinas) — full Spanish title with subtitle

Nínay is the 1885 novel of Pedro Alejandro Paterno, written in Spanish and published by the Imprenta de Fortanet in…

Nobel Peace Award · Peace Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, awarded…

Ate Guy — the intimate showbiz honorific · The Superstar — the standing title of her stardom

Nora Aunor — born Nora Cabaltera Villamayor on May 21, 1953, in Barrio San Francisco, Iriga, Camarines Sur; died on…

The UP Oblation — the usual designation outside the university · Pahinungod — the Filipino name, the word of self-offering

The Oblation (Filipino: Pahinungod, Oblasyon) is the concrete statue by Guillermo Tolentino — cast in concrete painted to imitate bronze…

National Artist of the Philippines · National Artist Award

The Order of National Artists (Orden ng mga Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) is the highest national recognition conferred on Filipinos…

The Augustinians — the common English designation · O.S.A. — the post-nominal initials

The Order of Saint Augustine (Latin: Ordo Sancti Augustini; O.S.A.) is a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church whose…

Overseas Filipino Workers · OFWs

An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a Filipino engaged, to be engaged, or previously engaged in remunerated work in a…

Overseas Filipino · Filipino diaspora

Overseas Filipinos are people of Filipino origin living outside the Philippines — a diaspora that spans permanent emigrants and their…

OWWA · Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers (1977 name)

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is the Philippine government agency charged with protecting and promoting the welfare of Overseas…

Ozone Disco fire — the short form of everyday Philippine usage · Ozone tragedy — the styling common in anniversary coverage

The Ozone Disco Club Fire was the fire that destroyed the Ozone Disco Club on Timog Avenue, Barangay South Triangle,…

Pablo S. Antonio, Sr. — his professional styling · Pablo Sebero Antonio — full name

Pablo Antonio (born Pablo Sebero Antonio Sr., January 25, 1901, Binondo, Manila – June 14, 1975, Manila) was a Filipino…

Paciano Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda — full name · Rizal y Alonzo, Paciano Mercado, 1851-1930 — Library of Congress authorized heading

Paciano Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (March 9, 1851 – April 13, 1930) was a Filipino revolutionary and landed proprietor…

Cementerio General de Dilao — original Spanish-era name · Paco Cemetery — former designation still used in heritage literature

Paco Park is a 0.411-hectare urban park and former cemetery in the Paco district of Manila — a circular, walled…

Pacto de Biak-na-Bató (Spanish designation) · Truce of Biak-na-Bató (Teodoro Agoncillo's designation for the three documents taken together)

The Pact of Biak-na-Bato (Spanish: Pacto de Biak-na-Bató) was the truce agreement signed in two-day ceremonies on December 14–15, 1897…

Francisco Guilledo · Francisco Villaruel Guilledo

Pancho Villa, born Francisco Villaruel Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), was a Filipino professional boxer and the…

Saint Augustine Parish Church, Paoay — the formal parish designation · San Agustín Church, Paoay — the name the UNESCO serial listing carries

Paoay Church, formally the Saint Augustine Parish Church of Paoay, Ilocos Norte, is the Augustinian-built church whose present fabric —…

Parián de Arroceros — "the rice farmers' market," from its first site · Pantin

The Parían (also Pantin or Parían de Arroceros) was the segregated market-and-residence quarter of Spanish Manila, established in 1581 beside…

Farol — the Spanish source word, still used for the lantern tradition's Hispanic antecedents · Paritaan — a native-language generic term for lanterns recorded alongside parol

A parol is the Philippine ornamental Christmas lantern, today standardized as a five-pointed star that symbolizes the Star of Bethlehem,…

General Pascual Álvarez · Pascual Álvarez y de Jesús

Pascual Álvarez (May 17, 1861 – March 8, 1923) was a Filipino revolutionary general of Cavite — a nephew of…

Patricio Montojo y Pasarón — full Spanish name · Contraalmirante Montojo — his final rank

Patricio Montojo y Pasarón (September 7, 1839, Ferrol, Galicia – September 30, 1917, Madrid) was a rear admiral (contraalmirante) of…

Paul McNutt

Paul Vories McNutt (July 19, 1891 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician and diplomat whose career ran from…

Don Perico — the nickname recorded in the standard account · Pedro Abad Santos y Basco — the full Hispanic styling

Pedro Abad Santos (Pedro Abad Santos y Basco; January 31, 1876, San Fernando, Pampanga – January 15, 1945, Minalin, Pampanga)…

Pedro Calonsor, el Visayo — the designation in the mission records · San Pedro Calungsod

Pedro Calungsod (born around 1654 by the traditional dating; died April 2, 1672, at Tumon, Guam) was a Filipino Catholic…

Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela · Resident Commissioner Pedro Guevara

Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela (February 23, 1879 – January 19, 1938) was a Filipino soldier, lawyer, legislator, and Spanish-language writer…

Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio — full birth name (also spelled y Debera Ignacio) · Pedro A. Paterno

Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio (February 27, 1857, Santa Cruz, Manila – April 26, 1911, Manila) was a Filipino…

PEF · Monkey-Eating Eagle Conservation Program (1969 predecessor)

The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) is a Davao City-based non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), the…

PEFTOK — the standard acronym · Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea — the singular form the standard article's text uses

The Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK; Filipino Ipinadalang Lakas ng Pilipinas sa Korea) was the Philippine Army contingent of…

PHSA · Makiling arts school (campus at the National Arts Center, Mount Makiling)

The Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) is the Philippines' specialized public secondary school for artistically gifted children, founded…

Lan-nang-oe · Lannang-oe

Philippine Hokkien is the heritage variety of the Hokkien language — a Southern Min Chinese tongue native to southern Fujian…

Aglipayan Church — the popular designation, from its first supreme bishop · Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) — the Spanish-Filipino formal name and initials

The Philippine Independent Church (Spanish: Iglesia Filipina Independiente, IFI), popularly the Aglipayan Church, is the Filipino nationalist church in schism…

PITAHC · PHIVOLCS

A Philippine Institute refers to any of the specialized, state-chartered research, regulatory, and policy-formulating bodies established by the government of…

PIA (architects' institute) · Philippine Architects Society

The Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) is the professional institute of Filipino architects and the oldest architectural society in the…

PMC · Philippine Marines — name from 1976 to 1995, still in colloquial use

The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) is the naval infantry force of the Philippines, organized on November 7, 1950 as "A"…

Philippine Normal School (PNS, 1901–1949) · Philippine Normal College (PNC, 1949–1991)

The Philippine Normal University (PNU) is the state university at 104 Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila, created by Act No. 74…

Painting in the Philippines · Filipino painting

Philippine painting is the practice of painting in the Philippines — a tradition whose documented record runs from Neolithic rock…

Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 — the statute's own citation name ([govinfo — 60 Stat. 128](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-60/pdf/STATUTE-60-Pg128.pdf "Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, Public Law 370, 60 Stat. 128 — govinfo")) · Public Law 370, 79th Congress — the public law designation ([govinfo — 60 Stat. 128](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-60/pdf/STATUTE-60-Pg128.pdf "Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, Public Law 370, 60 Stat. 128 — govinfo"))

The Philippine Rehabilitation Act — the short title of "An Act For the rehabilitation of the Philippines," Public Law 370…

Philippine Science High School · PSHS

The Philippine Science High School System (PSHS), commonly PSHS or Philippine Science High School, is the Philippines' specialized public high…

Carlito syrichta — the binomial since the 2010 revision · Tarsius syrichta — the binomial of the older literature, still the NCBI record's merge source

The Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta, formerly Tarsius syrichta; the spelling C. syrichtus also runs through the mammalogical literature) is a…

West Philippine Sea Dispute · South China Sea Arbitration

Philippines v. China, formally styled The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of the Philippines v. The People's Republic of…

Pío Isidro y Castañeda — birth name · Pang-una — Katipunan nom de guerre

Pío del Pilar — born Pío Isidro y Castañeda, and best recorded under the Katipunan nom de guerre "Pang-una" ("first"…

Dimas Ayaran — Katipunan nom de guerre, "the untouchable" · Madlang-Away — nom de plume for his writing in Ang Kalayaan

Pío Valenzuela y Alejandrino (July 11, 1869, Polo, Bulacan – April 6, 1956, Polo) was a Filipino physician and Katipunan…

Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide — the rendering most common in Philippine news reporting · Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide — the rendering carried in the English Wikipedia account

PISTON (rendered by the federation itself as Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide, "Solidarity of Drivers' and…

Philippine Journalism Review Reports — the full styling in use by 1995, abbreviated PJRR · PJRR — the abbreviation used in CMFR's own records

PJR Reports is the media-monitoring publication of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), the Quezon City press-freedom organization…

Act of the Proclamation of Independence of the Filipino People — the document's formal English title · Acta de la proclamación de independencia del pueblo Filipino — the document's Spanish title

The Proclamation of Philippine Independence of June 12, 1898 was the act by which Emilio Aguinaldo, as head of the…

Reform Movement (common English rendering) · Reformist Movement

The Propaganda Movement (also called the Reform Movement) was the campaign of Filipino expatriates — indios, mestizos, and insulares studying…

Purpose Beyond Profits (book, 2026) · PBP movement (informal shorthand for the associated ecosystem)

Purpose Beyond Profits is a self-published values-based leadership book by Filipino broadcast journalist Art Bonjoc Jr., released in 2026. The…

Hara Humamay — the conventional styling, from the contested Aginid chronicle · Amihan — the name in some versions of the tradition and in Sinulog narratives

Queen Juana was the consort of Rajah Humabon, the chieftain of Cebu at Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in 1521 — the…

Quirino-Foster Agreement — the hyphenated styling common in Philippine historiography · Memorandum of Agreement between Foster and President Quirino — the document's title in the Foreign Relations of the United States record

The Quirino–Foster Agreement is the memorandum of agreement signed at Baguio on November 14, 1950 between President Elpidio Quirino of…

Rafael de Echagüe y Bermingham (full name) · Rafael Echagüe y Bermingham

Rafael de Echagüe y Bermingham (1815–1887) was a Spanish lieutenant general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the…

Rafael Izquierdo y Gutiérrez — the full Spanish styling of the record · Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano Izquierdo — the baptismal names

Rafael de Izquierdo (Rafael Izquierdo y Gutiérrez; baptized Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano; born September 30, 1820, Santander, Spain – died in…

Raia Colambu (Pigafetta's spelling) · Rajah Kolambu (spelling used on the 1950 Limasawa historical marker)

Rajah Colambu — also spelled Rajah Kolambu, and recorded by the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta as "Raia Colambu" — was the…

Rajah of Cebu — the conventional designation · Rajah of Sugbu — the polity's own name for Cebu, in the later chronicles

Rajah Humabon was the chieftain of Cebu at Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in 1521 — the ruler of the archipelago's principal…

Ache — the personal name in the earliest Spanish records, as "Rája Aché" or "Raxa Ache" · Raja Ache el Viejo — "King Ache the Old," the Spanish styling

Rajah Matanda (born before 1521 – died August 1572) was the elderly paramount rajah of Maynila, the Muslim-linked trading polity…

Zula — spelling in both the Stanley (1874) and Robertson (1906) translations of Pigafetta · "Zula, a chief of the island of Matan" — Robertson's designation

Zula — popularly styled Rajah Zula or Datu Zula — is the Visayan chieftain recorded in Antonio Pigafetta's chronicle of…

Ramon Q. Avanceña — the styling used in the Supreme Court's own roster · Ramón Avanceña y Quiosay — the full Spanish-style name

Ramón Avanceña y Quiosay (April 13, 1872 – June 12, 1957) was a Filipino jurist who served as the fourth…

The Magsaysay Award — the common short form · The RM Award — the styling used by the foundation's own website

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is the prize established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, with…

Ramsar Convention · Convention on Wetlands

The Ramsar Convention — formally the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, now usually called the…

Real Audiencia de Manila · Royal Audiencia of Manila

The Real Audiencia of Manila (Spanish: Real Audiencia de Manila) was the Real Audiencia — the high court of the…

SOCSARGEN · Cotabato region

Region XII (officially designated as SOCCSKSARGEN) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the central-southern portion of Mindanao.…

Cantonal Government of Negros · Republican Canton of Negros (Cantón Republicano de Negros)

The Republic of Negros was the short-lived state raised on the island of Negros after the Negros Revolution of November…

Gobierno Revolucionario de Filipinas (Spanish designation) · Pamahalaang Rebolusyonaryo ng Pilipinas (Tagalog rendering)

The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (Spanish: Gobierno Revolucionario de Filipinas; Tagalog: Pamahalaang Rebolusyonaryo ng Pilipinas) was the provisional government…

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal — the full name the reference article carries · Ricardo Tito Vidal y Jamín — the Spanish-style form

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal (February 6, 1931 – October 18, 2017) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church…

RTPC — the abbreviation used in Philippine heritage-management literature · Ifugao Rice Terraces — the collective name in common and legislative use, also the name under which the terraces were declared a National Cultural Treasure

The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is the UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 1995 — reference number 722,…

Philippine road safety · road traffic safety in the Philippines

Road Safety in the Philippines is the body of policy, legislation, statistics, and practice by which the country manages deaths…

Robert Flint Chandler, Jr. (full name) · Robert F. Chandler, Jr.

Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler, Jr.; June 22, 1907 – March 23, 1999) was an American horticulturist and science…

Ka Lando — the movement name carried in the Bantayog ng mga Bayani record · Rolando M. Olalia — the full name of the Wikidata and Library of Congress records

Rolando M. Olalia (September 3, 1934 – November 13, 1986), known throughout the Philippine labor movement as Ka Lando, was…

Archdiocese of Manila · Manila Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (Latin: Archidioecesis Manilensis) is the oldest and the metropolitan see of the Catholic Church…

Catholic Church in the Philippines · Catholic Church in the Philippines — the standard short designation

The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines is the part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Bishop…

Ruy Lopez de Villalobos

Ruy López de Villalobos (c. 1500, Málaga, Andalusia — died 1546, Ambon, Moluccas) was a Spanish navigator whose 1542–1543 expedition…

Sagbayan · Municipality of Sagbayan

Sagbayan, officially the Municipality of Sagbayan, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…

Sakdal · Sakdalista

The Sakdalista movement — formally the Lapiang Sakdal (Sakdal Party), organized in mid-October 1933 — was a left-wing Filipino nationalist…

Salvador Ponce Lopez · Salvador Lopez

Salvador P. Lopez (Salvador Ponce Lopez; May 27, 1911, Currimao, Ilocos Norte – October 18, 1993, Manila) was a Filipino…

Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín — the formal name carried by the UNESCO inscription · Church of Saint Paul of Manila — the original designation of the 1607 structure

San Agustín Church, formally the Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín and originally named the Church of Saint…

Nao San Antonio — her designation in the fleet lists · St. Anthony — the English form used in the Stanley translation of Pigafetta

The San Antonio (often styled the nao San Antonio) was the largest of the five ships with which Ferdinand Magellan's…

San Antonio (original name as a trading ship, before conversion and renaming in 1600) · The San Diego galleon

The San Diego was a Spanish Manila galleon that sank on December 14, 1600 off Fortune Island, Nasugbu, Batangas, during…

Sandugo — the Visayan "one blood" ritual from which the festival takes its name · Bohol Sandugo Festival — the styling carried by the organizing Bohol Sandugo Foundation, Inc.

The Sandugo Festival is an annual historical celebration held every July in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, commemorating the sandugo — Visayan…

sangleys · sangleyes

Sangley (English plural sangleys; Spanish plural sangleyes) is the archaic term used in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era…

First Sangley Rebellion · Sangley Rebellion of 1603

The Sangley Rebellion — also called the First Sangley Rebellion — was the rising of Manila's Chinese residents, the sangleys…

Isla de Mayhaligue — the "island of Mayhaligue," the early Spanish-era name of the land awarded to the Jesuits in 1581 ([Wikipedia — Santa Cruz, Manila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Manila "Santa Cruz, Manila — Wikipedia")) · Hacienda de Mayhaligue — the estate of roughly two square kilometers granted by King Carlos III on June 24, 1784 to San Lázaro Hospital ([Wikipedia — Santa Cruz, Manila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Manila "Santa Cruz, Manila — Wikipedia"))

Santa Cruz is a district of northern Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River near its mouth —…

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption — the serial listing's name · Minor Basilica and Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption — the current formal title

Santa Maria Church, formally the Minor Basilica and Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the hilltop church…

Kidlat ng Apoy — his Katipunan nom de guerre, "Lightning of Fire" (Spanish: Rayo de Fuego) · Apoy — the signature he placed on the Acta de Tejeros and the Naic Military Agreement

Santiago Álvarez (July 25, 1872, Imus, Cavite – October 30, 1930, San Pablo, Laguna) was a Filipino revolutionary general —…

Seamount Philippines · Bingwit (brand/application)

Seamount Philippines Inc. is a Philippine fishing and livelihood venture associated with the Davao City enterprise ecosystem of Dalil Salam…

Secularization movement in the Philippines · Secularization of parishes

The Secularization Movement was the campaign, running from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth, by which Filipino secular priests…

Sergio Osmeña Sr. — the styling that distinguishes him from his son, Senator Sergio Osmeña Jr. · Don Sergio — the customary honorific of his Cebuano political base

Sergio Osmeña (September 9, 1878, Cebu – October 19, 1961, Quezon City) was a Filipino statesman, the fourth President of…

Mianong — the nickname by which he was commonly known · General Servillano Aquino — his rank and style in the revolutionary service

Servillano Aquino y Aguilar (April 20, 1874 – February 3, 1959), known by his nickname Mianong, was a Filipino general…

Misa de Gallo (Spanish, "Rooster's Mass") — the historic name for the dawn Masses, applied in one usage to the December 24 conclusion · Night Mass — literal English rendering of the Filipino name

Simbang Gabi — Filipino for "night Mass" — is the Philippine tradition of nine Masses held before dawn from December…

Sinulog — the short form, used alike for the dance, the devotion, and the festival · The Sinulog Grand Parade — the climactic Sunday event, often used for the whole festival

The Sinulog Festival is Cebu City's annual religious and cultural festival, held on the third Sunday of January in honor…

Sisig babi · Sísig

Sisig is a Filipino dish of chopped grilled pig's face — jowl and ears (the maskara) — mixed with pig…

Las Indias Orientales Españolas — the Spanish designation · The Spanish Philippines in the wider Pacific sense — the common shorthand that blurs the territory into its largest component

The Spanish East Indies (Spanish Las Indias Orientales Españolas) were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania…

The War of 1898 — the neutral dating designation · The Spanish-American War of 1898 — the date-qualified form of the standard name

The Spanish–American War (April 25 – August 12, 1898, by the United States declaration and the Protocol of Peace) was…

The Spoliarium (1884) — the year-qualified form · Luna's Spoliarium — the artist-fixed styling

The Spoliarium is Juan Luna's oil-on-canvas painting of 1884 — a canvas of 4.22 by 7.675 meters that took one…

Stonehill scandal · Stonehill case

The Stonehill Affair (also called the Stonehill scandal) was the 1962 corruption scandal that began with the government raid on…

Estrecho de Magallanes — the Spanish designation and map label · Estrecho de Todos los Santos (Strait of All Saints) — Magellan's own name, from the November 1 entry

The Strait of Magellan (Spanish: Estrecho de Magallanes) is the 570-kilometer (350-mile) navigable passage at the southern tip of South…

composite volcano

A stratovolcano — also known as a composite volcano — is a conical volcano built up by many alternating layers…

Sultanato de Joló (Spanish designation) · Sulu (Sultanate) — authorized form in the Library of Congress name authority file

The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim maritime polity centered on the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines, which at…

Sun Wen · Sun Yixian

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925; school name Sun Wen, art name Sun Yixian, best known in…

Tamarao · Tamarau (the spelling authorized by the Library of Congress subject heading)

The tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small dwarf buffalo endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines — the…

Tamblot uprising — the standard historical designation · Tamblot revolution — the styling used in some Philippine textbook traditions

The Tamblot Revolt — also styled the Tamblot uprising or Tamblot revolution — was the religious uprising led by Tamblot,…

The National Theater — the English rendering of the name · The CCP Main Theater / CCP Main Building — the common designations since the rehabilitation began

The Tanghalang Pambansa (English: National Theater), formerly the Theater of Performing Arts, is the flagship theater building of the Cultural…

Tanglad International

Tanglad International Inc. is a Philippine consumer-products venture in the wellness segment, associated with the Davao City enterprise ecosystem of…

Tayabas Regiment Mutiny · Tayabas Regiment Revolt

The Tayabas Regiment mutiny was the revolt of a regiment of Filipino soldiers — men recruited from Tayabas province (now…

Tejeros Assembly (common variant) · Convention of Tejeros

The Tejeros Convention was an assembly of Katipunan leaders held on March 22, 1897 at an estate building in Tejeros,…

Teodoro Andal Agoncillo — full name · National Scientist Agoncillo — the 1985 posthumous honor

Teodoro Agoncillo (Teodoro Andal Agoncillo; November 9, 1912 – January 14, 1985) was a Filipino historian, the leading figure of…

Teodoro Rafael Yangco y Argüelles — the full name in the record · Theo Yangco — the nickname the record carries

Teodoro R. Yangco — in full, Teodoro Rafael Yangco y Argüelles, nicknamed "Theo" (November 9, 1861, San Antonio, Zambales –…

Teodoro Sandiko y Santa Ana · Secretary of the Interior Sandiko (First Philippine Republic)

Teodoro Sandiko y Santa Ana (March 31, 1860 – October 19, 1939) was a Filipino propagandist, revolutionary general, cabinet secretary,…

The 1872 Terror · The repression of 1872

The Terror of 1872 is the conventional name for the repression that Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo's administration visited on Manila…

Terrorist attacks in the Philippines · Philippine terrorism

Terrorism in the Philippines is the documented record of terrorist violence and state counterterrorism in the Philippine archipelago — a…

Rosales Saga

The Rosales Saga is the five-novel cycle of the Filipino novelist F. Sionil José — The Pretenders (1962), My Brother,…

El Verdadero Decalogo · El Verdadero Decálogo

The True Decalogue (Spanish El Verdadero Decálogo) is a short ethical-political tract written by Apolinario Mabini and dated June 24,…

13th month pay · Thirteenth-month pay

Thirteenth month pay — commonly written 13th month pay — is the year-end benefit that Philippine law requires private employers…

Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III · Ali vs. Frazier III

The Thrilla in Manila — formally billed as Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III — was the third and final…

Duko — an old name of the sultanate carried in the historical record · Tidore Islands City — the English rendering of Kota Tidore Kepulauan, the modern Indonesian city

Tidore is a volcanic island, and the city spanning it, in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia — the southward…

Estanco de Tabacos · Estanco

The Tobacco Monopoly (Spanish estanco de tabaco) was the system established under Spanish rule by which the colonial government of…

Feast of the Black Nazarene — the feast-day designation of which the Traslación is the principal rite · The January 9 procession — the date-based styling

The Traslación of the Black Nazarene is the January 9 procession of the Black Nazarene — the dark wooden image…

Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain — formal title · Paris Peace Treaty of 1898

The Treaty of Paris (1898), formally the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, was the agreement signed…

Tratado de Zaragoza — the Spanish designation · Capitulation of Zaragoza — the styling this wiki's Spanish East Indies entry carries

The Treaty of Zaragoza (Spanish Tratado de Zaragoza; styled the Capitulation of Zaragoza in this wiki's Spanish East Indies entry)…

T. H. Pardo de Tavera — his standard scholarly signature · Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho — full baptismal name

Trinidad Pardo de Tavera — in full Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (April 13,…

Mother of Biak-na-Bato · Mother of Biak na Bato

Trinidad Perez Tecson (November 18, 1848 – January 28, 1928) was a Filipina revolutionary of the Katipunan, born in San…

Typhoon Ketsana · Tropical Storm Ondoy

Typhoon Ondoy — internationally Typhoon Ketsana, Japan Meteorological Agency designation 0916 — was the cyclone whose September 26, 2009 deluge…

Philippine World Heritage Sites · The Philippines' World Heritage List inscriptions

The UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Philippines are the six properties of the country inscribed on the World Heritage…

Mighty Mo — the ship's documented nickname · Muddy Mo — a variant nickname recorded after her 1950 grounding

The USS Missouri (BB-63) — nicknamed "Mighty Mo" — is an Iowa-class battleship of the United States Navy, the last…

Olympia (C-6) — protected-cruiser designation · Cruiser No. 6 — pre-1920 hull-numbering style

The USS Olympia (C-6) is a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, built at the Union Iron Works in…

Vicente Silva Manansala (full name; Silva is the maternal middle name) · "Mang Enteng" (familial press appellation)

Vicente Manansala (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator, born in San Roque,…

Vicente Yap Sotto — the given-name order used in Cebu commemoration · Vicente Sotto y Yap — the full Spanish-style styling

Vicente Sotto y Yap (April 18, 1877 – May 28, 1950), also styled Vicente Yap Sotto, was a Cebuano journalist,…

Nao Victoria — the Spanish designation carried by the replicas · The first ship to circumnavigate the globe — the descriptive title in Spanish commemorations

The Victoria was a Spanish carrack (nao) of 85 tonels — roughly 51 English shipping tons — built in the…

Victorino Montaño Mapa · Victorino M. Mapa

Victorino Mapa (Victorino Montaño Mapa; February 25, 1855, Kalibo, Capiz – April 12, 1927, Manila) was a Filipino jurist, the…

Vizconde case · Vizconde killings

The Vizconde massacre was the killing of Estrellita Vizconde, 49, and her daughters Carmela, 19, and Anne Marie Jennifer, 7,…

Major General Wesley Merritt (rank held in 1898) · General Wesley Merritt

Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1836 – December 3, 1910) was a career United States Army cavalry officer — a Civil…

Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr. — the full styling of the public record · Ka Bobby — the familiar address carried in his own styling

Wigberto Tañada (Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr.; born August 13, 1934, Gumaca, Tayabas, now Quezon) is a Filipino lawyer…

W. Cameron Forbes · Governor Forbes

William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) was an American investment banker, colonial administrator, and diplomat —…

William Edward Parsons — the full name of the record · William E. Parsons — the styling under which his Philippine work is catalogued

William Edward Parsons (June 1872, Akron, Ohio – December 17, 1939, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American architect who served…

Wood-Forbes Mission — the hyphenated styling · Wood–Forbes Commission — the designation carried in the Forbes record

The Wood–Forbes Mission (March 1921 – October 1921) was the fact-finding commission sent to the Philippine Islands by the newly…

Zapote River bridge — the 1899 engagement is formally the Battle of Zapote River · The Las Piñas–Bacoor crossing on the old Manila–Cavite provincial road

Zapote Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge crossing the Zapote River at the boundary between Las Piñas (Metro Manila)…

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