| Item Call Number |
GE00259 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00259 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00259
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Cebu City
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Strategically situated in the center of what is literally an enlarged coral polyp and hemmed in on all sides by low-laying mountains -- so that it is protected most of the year from harsh winds and heavy rains -- Cebu City has been called the Queen City of the south. The capital of the province of Cebu, it has an area of 33,039 hectares, including 169 hectares reclaimed from the sea at the initiative of Sen. Sergio Osmeña, Jr. By March l6, 1521, the date Magellan landed in the Philippines, Zebu or Zsubu, or Cubu, was a thriving port where the Portuguese navigator found "vessels of several nations at anchor, and the king of that place demanding durites for merchandise and anchora ge". There was brisk trading in silk, pottery, jewelry, grains and spices. Here Magellan got entangled in Cebuano tribal wars and was killed in Mactan island by Lapulapu. Legazpi made Cebu the first capital of the Philippines on April 27, 1565. It was called "La Ciudad del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus" because one of the men in the Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition found in one of the huts the image of the Child Jesus that had been left by Magellan. From 1565 to 1571 it was the capital of the colony and was converted into a diocese on August 14, 1595 by Pope Clement VIII. Up to 1759, it continued to have a municipal government, which was abolished and then restored in 1890. Within the three decades, it had become a commercial metropolis and the Visayan port was equal in rank with Manila, with the same theoretical right to send galleons to Acapulco. There were, however, constant raids by the Muslims from the south.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1970
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Provinces and cities
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| Subject Geographic Name |
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - aerial
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - Commercial District
- Focus term - visayas
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