1622 Establishments - Settlements Established in 1622, States and Territories Established in 1622, Cagayan de Oro City, Wessagusset Colony (Paperback)

Chapters: Settlements Established in 1622, States and Territories Established in 1622, Cagayan de Oro City, Wessagusset Colony, Bucaramanga, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Hesse-Homburg, Province of Maine, Goring Baronets, Musketeers of the Guard, Konigsegg-Rothenfels, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Order of Saint Elisabeth, Konigsegg-Aulendorf. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cagayan de Oro City - The name Cagayan can be traced back during the arrival of the Spanish Augustinian Recollect friars in 1622, the area around Himologan (now Huluga), was already known as Cagayan. In fact, early Spanish documents in the 1500s already referred to the place as Cagayan. The area of Northern Mindanao, which included Cagayan, was granted as Encomienda to a certain Juan Griego on January 25, 1571. Former Congressman and Vice President of the Philippines Emmanuel Pelaez appended de Oro to Cagayan in recognition of the gold mining activities in the area known to Spaniards explorer, which is a combination of the ancient Malayo-Polynesian and Spanish languages that translates to "City of the River of Gold." The area was first inhabited around 377 A.D. (the late Neolithic period), island natives lived in a settlement then known as Himologan (now known as Huluga), eight kilometers from present day Cagayan de Oro. The natives were polytheistic animist and paid tributes to Sultan Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat, the Sultan of Maguindanao. In 1622, two Spanish Augustinian Recollect Missionaries came in contact with the natives of Himologan and in 1626, Fray Agustin de San Pedro persuaded the chief of Himologan, Datu Salangsang, to transfer his settlement down river, to the present-day Gaston Park. Fray Agustin later fortified the new settlement ag...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25040821