| Item Call Number |
GE00854 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00854 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00854
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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 - Basey
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Basey lies at the southwestern tip of Samar and is separated from Leyte by the narrow strait of San Juanico. Bounded by the mountains of Sohotan at the north and Balangiga at the southeast; the town is a bank of clay about fifty feet above the sea. Running through the west, the level elevates itself into a hill several hundred feet in height. The coast of Basey is still undergoing elevation. Basey was made a part of the Jesuit residence of Dulac when it was founded in 1609. In an account of the status of the Jesuit mission in the religious residence, the village was listed as having 430 tributaries. By 1650, it was embraced by the residence, the village was listed as having 430 tributaries. By 1650, it was embraced by the residence in Dagumi (now Dagami), a town belonging to Leyte. Between the years 1690 and 1750, Basey was sacked and burned by Moro sea pirates from Jolo and Tawi-tawi. The religious and the natives who tried to flee to the mountains at the north were pursued and carried away as captives. Those who resisted were killed regardless of ages and classes. At the instance of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the colony, the Augustianians took over the administration of the town in 1768. The Augustianians held on to the mission until 1795 and ceded it later to the Franciscans. The first Franciscan friar assigned to the town, Fray Juan Navarro, started his administration in 1804. The church, dedicated to Michael the Archangel, was constructed from hewn-stone by the Jesuits and restored by a Franciscan friar, Fray Domingo de Madrid, in 1845. He also built a bell-tower, a stone-convent and a spacious cemetery with a small chapel at the center. Basey's principal product is coconut oil though it also cultivates rice, palauan and camote.
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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 - 1972
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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 |
- Geographic name - Basey, Western Samar
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1972
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - Balangiga
- Focus term - coconut palms
- Focus term - San Juanico Strait
- Focus term - Sohoton
- Focus term - visayas
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