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 | | The Maranaos explicitly told the Americans that none of the troops of the Americans would be permitted to penetrate into the interior of the Lake Lanao without opposition. | | | A survivor during the battle was interviewed who gave an account on how the Maranaos defied the Americans which led to a bloody encounter between the Moros of Lanao and the United States Army. | | | The Maranaos claimed that It was because of these traps and canals with sharpened bamboos where many Americans died. |
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| | The current continued political assertion of the Maranao people should beviewed from the political development on the part of their society, which began to evolve as a political institution towards the later part of the 18 | | | A Maranao oral report revealed that the first Tausug preachers reached the Lanao lake before the arrival of foreign Muslim missionaries, possibly the Malay preachers. | | | The spread of Islam to Mindanao between 1450 and 1500 was part of the political goal of the Sulu sultanate. |
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http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=232
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| | 8 LAGUNA COPS SACKED FOR ABDUCTING MARANAO TRADERS |
| | The group denied having kidnapped the three traders, claiming they were arrested during a drug buy-bust and were subsequently charged in court for possession and sale of about 10 grams of shabu. | | | Montalbo and Salandanan, however, claimed they were about to accompany the relatives of Dapat, Sultan and Alim to the police headquarters when they were arrested. | | | The complaint for robbery-extortion against Uriquia, Barcala, Sumilang, Dimasapit, Barairo and police informants Bienvenido Salandanan and Arnulfo Montalbo has been amended to kidnapping for ransom. |
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| | By The Federation of Maranao Associations in Saudi (FEMAS) |
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| | To be young and Maranao means more than just having teenage fun, pioneering stury says |
| | The Maranaos, estimated to be about a million, are the most populous among the 13 ethnic groups of Muslims (only about a little more than two million out of Mindanao’s population of 14 million, as of 1999). | | | Zahria Mapandi, AMDF project officer, said the call of the hour is to design information and educational materials that speak to young people and are effective in countering misinformation and unhealthy attitudes. | | | The 2003 study on Maranao youth is the first ever in-depth study of the everyday hopes, fears and dreams of the Maranao youth by a local non-profit organization. |
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http://www.mindanews.com/2004/07/11ftr-maranao.html
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| | CSSP Thesis/Dissertation Abstracts -- Myrma Jean Aban Mendoza (Ph.D. Sociology) |
| | Marginal Maranao, more known as ‘mestiza/mestizo’ Maranao are the interesting subjects in this social investigation because of their peculiar status in occupying dual membership of Muslim and Christian groups. | | | Marginal Maranao have either Islam, Christian or both religion. | | | They claim to be Maranao yet their religion is Christian and they are not well versed with Maranao culture. |
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| | Maguindanaos also have their malatabat, which is the same as the Maranao maratabat, down to its payment in blood. | | | The family remains close-knit; children obey and love their parents, ensuring that the home would be a nice place to live in. | | | A close study of these same tales reveals some differences, of course. |
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http://www.msumain.edu.ph/mac/preface.html
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| | .: Mindanews -- 15 July 2005 :. |
| | But Maranao youths say otherwise, saying that the President does not have the “moral ascendancy” to lead the country. | | | MARAWI CITY -- Traditional leaders here say it is maratabat (pride) for Maranaos to "defend from power-grabbers in Manila" President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who was crowned a Bae a labi (princess) in Lanao and a scion of the Macaraeg clan of Mindanao. | | | I call on peace-loving citizens of the country to give way to peace instead of hatred and violence, promote unity instead of dissension." |
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| | MARAWI CITY — The country’s lone Islamic City is hard to “sell” to outsiders owing to the media’s projection of it as a place of criminals and polygamous men, Don Daud Pimping, executive vice president of the Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurs, said. | | | Pimping, who is also president of the C and D Group of Companies, was the keynote speaker at the Darangen Jaycees Assembly Friday where he spoke on the theme “Marketing the Maranao and Muslim.” | | | Solon says ARMM polls may not push through |
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| | Sun.Star Zamboanga - Maranao group holds consultation, supports Arroyo |
| | The COCs merely shown that the Maranao electorates chose the candidates who were obviously from Mindanao and has a hand in its transformation and development. | | | A GROUP of Maranao leaders from Lanao del Sur have called on their fellow Maranaos here and in the neighboring provinces to support the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during a consultative meeting with representatives of various business, civic and religious leaders who are base here in Zamboanga City and the neighboring provinces. | | | Sun.Star Zamboanga - Maranao group holds consultation, supports Arroyo |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2005/06/19/news/maranao.group.holds.consultation.supports.arroyo.html
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| | Sining Kambayoka Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc. - A Bravenet.com Forum |
| | They would also ask why I, on the other hand, was allowed by my family to work in an office that makes me travel to different places in the country, meet new people (mostly men), facilitate seminars where majority of the participants are Christians, and anchor my own radio program? | | | This question is always asked to me by Christian friends who have stereotyped a Maranao woman to be ‘just a caretaker of the house and the family,” to borrow their words. | | | Many people do have misconceptions on us Maranao women, mostly negative, such as being “uneducated,” “plain housewives,” “second-class citizens,” and sadly, “people who are not expected to make decisions for the family.” I was actually asked if I were any or all of those. |
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http://pub5.bravenet.com/forum/344933622/fetch/366566
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| | Tanikalang Ginto www.filipinolinks.com Philippines : Internet/Wikang Katutubo/Maranao |
| | This website is sponsored by the Federation of Maranao Associations in Saudi Arabia and is instrumental in uniting the Maranao community in Saudi Arabia. | | | The Maranaos (people of the lake) are the largest Moro and cultural minority in the Philippines. | | | Home : Internet : Wikang Katutubo : Maranao |
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http://www.filipinolinks.com/Internet/Wikang_Katutubo/Maranao
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| | Maranao Faces Photo Gallery by Bobby Timonera at pbase.com |
| | Sabturia, these were taken in a public place during a public event, and I was there as a journalist covering the event. | | | Maranao Faces Photo Gallery by Bobby Timonera at pbase.com | | | Maybe someone strange take yur photo as well, you ayaw too di ba? |
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http://www.pbase.com/timonera/maranaofaces
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| | Global Nation INQ7.net |
| | I have become a self-styled webmaster since the introduction of the Internet in Saudi Arabia, in early 1996. | | | I first designed the Maranao Website at http://www.maranao.com sponsored by the Federation of Maranao Associations in Saudi, of which I am the incumbent secretary general (2001-2002). | | | Needless to say, I'm a pure Maranao, born in Lumbac, Magsaysay, Lanao del Norte on Dec. 5, 1969; raised and studied there till I graduated high school in 1985. |
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http://www.inq7.net/globalnation/sec_ofw/2003/20-bucay.htm
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| | The OGF repertoire includes ethnic dances of the Bontoc, Maranao and Tausug as well as lowland Christian rural and Maria Clara dances. | | | Singkil : Maranao royal dance showing how princess Paramandiangan gracefully evades failing trees sent by evil spirits to trap her and how prince Bantugan saves and falls in love with her. | | | Kapamalong-malong : Maranao dance showing how the tubular skirt called malong is worn by men and women for different purposes -- as skirt, bathrobe, loin cloth, turban, purse and ashtray, among others. |
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http://homewww.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp/~ooue/ogfe.html
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| | YEHEY!Travel News Bits - Where's your next stop? |
| | Usman said his family was encouraged to establish a branch inCagayan de Oro due to the prodding of friends and government agencies such as the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Tourism. | | | Cagayan De Oro City - Owners of Ming Antique Collections, a shopspecializing in ethnic Maranao crafts that recently opened at the SMCagayan de Oro are planning to establish similar ethnic Mindanaon shops in key cities of the country. | | | Featured Maranao products at the shop are costumes used by Maranaoroyal families during special occasions such as weddings; kararao(brass water containers); koden (cooking pots); talam (brass food trays); and tabo (big drums which used to be used by Maranaos to call Muslims for obligatory prayer). |
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| | Sun Star Cebu: Maranao man shot dead; gunmen flee |
| | The motive of the shooting is still to be established. | | | Lapu-Lapu City homicide investigator Fermin Donque said the victim Para Mauyag, a 39-year-old Maranao, suffered a gunshot wound in the left chest. | | | She said Para came to Lapu-Lapu City from Lanao del Norte in 2000. |
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| | Sponsored by the Federation of Maranao Associations in Saudi Arabia (FEMAS). | | | Maranao Tribe of the Southern Philippines - maranao.com - Arab | | | Home > Maranao Tribe of the Southern Philippines |
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http://www.araboo.com/site/saudi-maranao-34257
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| | Maranao -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Like the other Filipino Muslims, the Maranao differ markedly from the Christians, who make up… | | | Constituting about 5 percent of the Philippine population, they can be classified linguistically into 10 subgroups: the Maguindanao of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Maguindanao provinces; the Maranao of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur... | | | "Maranao" Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9050736
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| | Mga Kuwentong Maranao by Frank Rivera |
| | Rivera opens the book with an exciting historical account of his journey in Marawi where he established himself as a prolific playwright, organizing one of the country's oldest and most established theatre groups. | | | Within the backdrop of an increasingly suppressive Marcos regime, Rivera wrote and mounted the political satire Mga Kuwentong Maranao, which infuses Maranao artistic tradition such as the "bayok" (chant) and characters from Maranao tales, with commentaries on contemporary political situation. | | | Mga Kuwentong Maranao is one of Frank Rivera's timeless plays, performed by the reputable Sining Kambayoka of Marawi's Mindanao State University. |
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http://www.oovrag.com/books/2004maranao.shtml
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| | Maranao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Maranaos also are one of the ethnic groups in the Philippines who are fair-skinned, probably attributable to Arab and Chinese admixtures. | | | Maranao is the term used for the people of Lanao, a predominantly Muslim region in the Philippine island of Mindanao. | | | The language of the Maranao people is also called Maranao. |
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| | Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur Mindanao tourist destinations Marawi city hotels accommodation |
| | This is movable feast on which the Sultan or Datu of the place is oblige to give for his people. | | | Maranao is the most widely spoken dialect and is understood by Muslims and Christians alike. | | | Since Arabic studies came to be widely taught among the city's students, a great number of the population can read, write and speak Arabic. |
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http://www.lakbaypilipinas.com/travel_marawi_city.html
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| | The Bible in Maranao |
| | This page is taken from a New Testament first published in 1981 by GT Printers, Cebu City. | | | Maranao is spoken in Philippines by 603,000 people. |
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| | Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro - Maranao heads take up cudgels for Arroyo |
| | Some Maranaos, who claimed to be relatives of President Arroyo, said "in defense of President Arroyo, we take the Maratabhat." | | | The Maranao relatives of President Arroyo by consanguinity or affinity had based this on the genealogy which shows that President Arroyo is a 7th generation descendant of the Sarip-Alawi-Macaraeg family. | | | The group also declared its full support to President Arroyo "in the midst of economic and political turmoil besetting the nation", a statement signed by at least 25 representatives of Maranao NGOs. |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2005/07/14/news/maranao.heads.take.up.cudgels.for.arroyo.html
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| | Noel's Pilipino Folkdance Glossary - Muslim/Moro Suite |
| | The ethno-linguistic groups who are primarily considered Muslim are the Maranao, Maguindanao, Samal, and Tausug. | | | This epic, written sometime in the 14th century, tells the fateful story of Princess Gandingan, who was caught in the middle of a forest during an earthquake caused by the diwatas, or fairies of the forest. | | | Katsudoratan depicts a royal manner of "walking" among the Maranao people who live mainly around Lake Lanao. |
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| | She said news that Halley was killed by a Maranao came as a shock to the Muslims who could not believe that one of them could harm the priest. | | | He said Halley was very fluent in Maranao and even worked as a salesman in a store owned by a Maranao in Marawi City. | | | He was very immersed in the Maranao culture," de la Pena said in his homily. |
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| | The Inflection and Syntax of Maranao Verbs - MCKAUGHAN, HOWARD |
| | This study concentrates on the internal inflection of verbs. | | | Maranao is part of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages. | | | Based on fieldwork, the monograph is also indexed with a bibliography. |
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| | Born into the Maranao tradition, his father is a chieftain Solotan of a village in Lanao, Island of Mindanao and his mother (God bless hersoul)was the princess Bai-a Labi of another village. | | | He drew from this richwell of tradition and art to become a pioneer member of the MSU CulturalTroupe.Soon after, the University of Washington invited him to the United States toteach Maranao kolintang. | | | This seed of ethnomusicology that began in 1968soongrew to teaching, performances, forums, conferences and symposia onkolintangmusic across America, Canada and Northern Ireland. |
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| | The subgroup includes Maranao, spoken in the Lanao provinces; Ilanun (also Ilanum or Iranun), spoken by a group of sea-based people between Lanao and Maguindanao; and Maguindanao, mainly spoken in Maguindanao, Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat (McFarland 1983:96). | | | In the early 17th century, the largest alliance composed of the Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug, and other Muslim groups was formed by Sultan Kudarat or Cachel Corralat of Maguindanao, whose domain extended from the Davao Gulf to Dapitan on the Zamboanga peninsula. | | | The next to arrive at Labangan is Datu Buyan Makasosa Kanapia, an adventurer, who marries a Maranao. |
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| | They are Mindanao's last group to be converted to Islam. | | | Maranao are the graceful "people of the lake", living on the northern edge of Lake Lanao. | | | The torongan is a symbol of rank abd prestige and is reserved for important celebrations and political events. |
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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=31960
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| | Prayer for Mindanao, philippines - 30-Days Muslim World Prayer Guide - Day 16 |
| | A third large group, the Tausug, also numbers close to a million people. | | | Many Filipino evangelicals are sensing the call of God to be cross-cultural missionaries to their own Muslim 'cousins,' and this is an encouraging trend. | | | Two of these, the Magindanao and the Maranao, have been highlighted in this Muslim prayer focus in past years. |
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| | Three of these are on the island of Mindanao: the Maranao around Lake Lanao, the Maguindanao of Cotabato, and the Sanggil of the region further south of Cotabato. |
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| | International Centre for Women Playwrights- Seasons Newsletter July 2004 |
| | Kapanowkaw-tokaw was acted in Maranao (with English explanations), a language which even the other Filipinos at the conference did not know. | | | In the West we think of Islam as a latecomer, but in the Philipines, where Muslims arrived before Christians, the several different Muslim tribes seem to be viewed with other beleaguered indigenous tribes struggling to retain their culture. | | | A couple of Mutin's friends, fluent in Maranao, had been recruited to read. |
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition LIFE & TIMES > A different debut |
| | And while Muslim families have their daughters marry at an age as young as 14 years, modern society would agree that 18 years old upwards is the preferable age for Muslim ladies to start a family. | | | The Dimaporo family is Maranao, one of the three major indigenous Muslim groups in Mindanao. | | | The Rizal Ballroom of the Shangri-La Makati shone in red and gold in the Moroccan and Muslim Mindanao-themed party. |
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/sept/28/yehey/life/20040928lif1.html
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| | Maranao Community Leaders Throw Their Support Behind ‘Save Lake Lanao’ Campaign |
| | JEDDAH, 13 May 2005 — Members of the Maranao community in Jeddah have organized a chapter of RCAPP, a Philippine-based group whose main aim is to save Lake Lanao in Mindanao from further destruction. | | | Maranao Community Leaders Throw Their Support Behind ‘Save Lake Lanao’ Campaign |
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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=10§ion=0&article=63699&d=17&m=5&y=2005
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| | Dictionaries Bansa.org |
| | This is where an explanation of the Maranao word is placed. | | | As you use the dictionary, if you run across a word that is not in it, once you find the meaning come back and put it in. | | | Aside from the definition, you can include things such as the part of speech, synonyms, or examples. |
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| | Credits, UHM Philippine Studies |
| | The Maranao are a group of Islamized people in Mindanao who represent one of the oldest civilized kingdoms (sultanate) in the Malay world before the coming of western powers. | | | This tapestry of colors has inspired the design of this web. | | | Yellow, maroon and violet, among others, are typical colors preferred by the Maranao nobles for their flags, dresses, and other material items they use during festivities. |
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| | The Bangsamoro Online - wfsection-Understanding the Moros |
| | Socially and religiously, however, the diverse Moro ethnic groups feel they all belong to the ummah, the world Islamic community so distinct from all the other world religious communities. | | | Another Maranao scholar, Mamitua Saber, once opined that the minimal social interaction was in fact due to the physical isolation of the different Moro ethnic groups even within the Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan areas. | | | Historical biases often remain ingrained even centuries after and continue to hinder whatever attempts at real cultural syncretism. |
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| | Romancing the Malong: From Cradle to Crypt By Christine F. Godinez-Ortega |
| | And as he grows to adulthood, the malong is his indispensable companion until death, when he is wrapped again, for the last time, in his best malong. | | | The malong is not merely a utilitarian garment; it is an art form. | | | Although the Maranao weavers — who are mainly women — are highly respected in their community, the ancient craft of back-loom weaving is under attack from modern technology. |
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| | Police arrested one of the suspects, Abdul Samad Ibrahim, son of a village chief in Malabang, who identified three of his companions during interrogation, and named Daing as the triggerman who shot the priest when the latter refused to go with them. | | | It did not take long for him to learn the Maranao language and that of the Cebuano-speaking Christian settlers, Balindong recalled. | | | Collin McKeating, Director of Columban Fathers, expressed amazement how he saw Maranao Muslims in the 60,000-population town of Malabang in Lanao del Sur, set aside cultural and religious prohibitions to honor the man they regard as their own. |
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| | Each person is entitled to their own opinion, and I respect the fact that YOU believe that the Maranaos made the most beautiful krises. | | | Second, I believe that the "beautiful" Maranao krises that you are refering to are the very elaborate ones that were made for the upper echelon of Maranao society...the datus. | | | He has the starts of a website at http://www.morokris.com At least his email is there. |
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| | One of the most pervasive design motifs found among the Muslim groups is the okir (Maranao), or ukkil (Tausug), a leaf-and-vine pattern. | | | The precision with which the Maranao outline an intricate network of vine-and-leaf motifs has few equals among the metal traditions of Asia. | | | The okir, in a more contained form, is also found on brass objects. |
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| | WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description |
| | Lanao del Sur is the land of the Maranaos, “people of the lake,” among the most devout of Muslim tribes as well as the most artistic. | | | Also spoken are Tagalog and Visaya as well as English and Arabic. | | | Their long, low, and sleek boats sport a rainbow of brilliant colors matched only by the exuberance of the malong, the native wear of the Maranao women. |
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| | These are just some of the equations complains Maranao enterpreneur and President of C and D Group of Companies, Don Daud Pimping, pointing to media and its projection of the lone Islamic City in the country. | | | Pimping was the keynote speaker during the Darangen Jaycees Assembly which had as its theme, "Marketing the Maranao and Muslim." Pimping, a graduate of the Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA), was described as the first Maranao to have built the highest building in Marawi of five floors. |
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http://www.bangsamoro.com/mvoice/mv_060105_e.php?PHPSESSID=e62bf3b6a589fd128ea7de1feefcdf47
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| | While she was walking in the forest, diwatas (fairies) caused the earth to quake and shake the trees and rocks; Princess Gandingan, however, skipped nimbly from one place to another so that her feet did not touch the fallen trees and rocks. | | | According to Maranao legend, the Singkil derives its name from the feat of a certain Princess Gandingan. | | | Whereas Maranao society has no sanction for men and women dancing together, the Tausogs in Kandingan require mixed dancing. |
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| | Rich businessmen, who are also financiers of TIPI and VICMAR are reportedly financing MARANAO's logging operation | | | Eventually, the two trucks escaped and returned to their point of origin on April 24, 2001. | | | Maranao Alliance for Rural Advancement in Lanao (MARANAO) |
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| | This is better than the recent work coming out of Mindanao, and looks circa WWII to me based on other examples I have that were well provenanced. | | | I would be interested in what the shop owner had to say about the kris, whether or not he mentioned it as being a re-fit. | | | Seriously though, it looks like a pretty old Maranao blade that may have been re-hilted some 50 years ago. |
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http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=2412
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| | She is daughter of a Maranao sultan from Mindanao, Philippines, and trained since childhood in all the traditional dance, music, and martial art forms of her people she serves as the tradition bearer for the company. | | | The region was dominated by Hindu culture from the 4th to the 10th centuries. | | | The Indian epic has been preserved in the authentic oral tradition of the centuries-old Maranao tribe of the southern Philippines and has been interpreted for the stage through the contemporary vision of Potri Ranka Manis, daughter of the Sultan of the Maranao tribe (a true modern-day Princess!), and her company of 16 young artists. |
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