HISTORY Lecture 1: History 111
16 Oct 2021
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Manuel roxas the third philippine republic president. On the map, our country is named philippines. Navigator, ruy lopez de villalobos in the year 1543. He named our country filipinas in honor of prince philip of asturias. In 1556, prince philip became king prince philip 11 of spain. Since then the country came to be called philippines and the people. Theories of the philippines: part of lost continent lemuria, pacific ocean (pre-historic), marianas, mid- Pacific island, borneo, java, sumatra and celebes: volcano origin / pacific or magnetic, land bridge of asiatic theory asia, china, borneo, indonesia, new guinea and australia. Philippines is an archipelago: 7,107 island only , 2,773 island have names, total area- 115, 707 square miles (299, 681 sq. km. , two thirds the size of spain. It is larger than the combined areas of the state of new york, de laware,
