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 Cockatoo Database Philippines / island / Sulu
In the Sulu archipelago which was the Arabs' and Islam's entrance point, the religion and culture which competed with Christian colonialism was introduced just 150 years before the coming of Magellan, by the Arab knight Makdum, in Sulu around 1380.
The government form corresponding with Islam, a sultanate state, was established in Sulu at around 1450 by the Muslim missionary Abu Bakhr.
For international trade some centuries ago, as well as for Islam, the Sulu archipelago was not the backdoor but the front door.
http://www.cockatoo.com/english/philippines/philippines_islands_sulu.htm   (555 words)

  
 The Yakans Of Basilan
In the political sphere, the management of Muslim affairs through the organization of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu in 1914 was unsuccessful, as leadership in the department fell in the hands of Christians.
Islam is said to have started in the Philippines in 1380 but some scholars believe that Islam spread in some areas of the archipelago during the early 1200s.
Basilan's nearness to Borneo led to the theory that the Yakan originated from the Dyak, but it is safe to say that Basilan's history is related to that of the Sulu archipelago.
http://www.geocities.com/udis79   (4007 words)

  
 Jolo, Philippines
The island is bounded on the north by the Sulu Sea and on the south by the Celebes Sea.
The Tausugs are the dominant group in the Sulu Archipelago, numerically, economically and politically.
This paper portrays the Sulus as masters of the sea, and as such they flourished in trade and commerce, international politics and diplomacy, unconquerable in their defense against imperialism
http://www.waltokon.com/Jolo04.html   (1770 words)

  
 Macdonald Center - Online Articles
The sultans of Sulu have all claimed descent from him.
This is partly explained by Sulu’s relatively early Islamization, as well as by the fact that it has maintained closer contacts with other centers of Islam.
Spain brought Christianity to the Philippines in 1521, three decades after having militarily ejected Islam from Granada in 1492, where it had been present since the reign of Abdurahman II in 721.
http://macdonald.hartsem.edu/articles_oliveros.htm   (3438 words)

  
 AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Article Sumary on da different Muslim Ethnic
The peaceful triumph of Islam in Sulu in the middle of the 13th century led to the Islamization of local politics.
The spread of Islam to Mindanao between 1450 and 1500 was part of the political goal of the Sulu sultanate.
This foreign relations of the Sulu sultanate involved trade, mutual friendship and military alliance.
http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16521   (10019 words)

  
 Igorot and moro National Reemergence: The Fabricated Philippine State.
The land under discussion is the historic homeland of the Moros -- Basilan, Mindanao, Palawan, and the Sulu Archipelago.
No single political entity ever ruled the entire archipelago, and those states which did arise to govern significant portions of these islands, including the area around Manila, were Muslim.
Tensions increased as Moros continued to seek national self-determination, and Filipinos continued to deny this to them.
http://www.cwis.org/fwj/21/imnr.html   (12004 words)

  
 Tausug
Resting between the sea of Sulu and Zamboanga, the two mountains must not be referred to by travellers.
Sulu becomes popular in time and later begins attract Arab missionaries (Tuban 1977:59-60).
Orosa, Sixto Y. The Sulu Archipelago and Its People.
http://litera1no4.tripod.com/tausug_frame.html   (8040 words)

  
 Swish of the Kris 3-17. Mindanao and Sulu in 1898
After a great deal of preliminary negotiation, which was hampered by the alleged illness of the Sultan and various abortive attempts on the part of the Moros to frighten the American occupants, the Moros presented on August 9, 1899, the following document to the American government in which they stated their opinion of their rights.
Over the barangays in the hands of the Datus was the loosely organized control held by the religious and political Sultanates of Sulu and Mindanao.
Article Five - All trade in domestic products in the Archipelago of Sulu, when carried on by the Sultan and his people, with any part of the Philippine Islands, and when conducted under the American flag, shall be free, unlimited and undutiable.
http://www.nikhef.nl/~tonvr/keris/keris2/swish/swk3-17.html   (3574 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Sulu Archipelago rain forests (IM0156)
The Sulus (Sangasanga, Bongao, Simunul, Tawitawi) also support a population of slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), a Sundaic primate that is not found in the remainder of the Philippines (Heaney 1986).
Mangroves are found on the coasts throughout the Archipelago but are especially extensive on Tawitawi; mangroves around Bongao have been cleared.
Sibutu has considerable secondary forest, and the island supports numerous Sulu subspecies.
http://worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0156_full.html   (1408 words)

  
 Sulu Sea Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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http://www.quiltplace.com/search/encyclopedia/Sulu_Sea   (138 words)

  
 Historical Flags of Sulu Sultanate
But this hypothesis is a little risky because the presence of missionaries from the Arabic Peninsula and the exchanges and trades between Sulu and the other countries carried in the archipelago news and information on the cradle of Islam and its most important temple and fantastic descriptions that rendered its glory.
The French society of Vexillology is searching for a photo of the Mecca doors and I am also researching the topic.
This hypothesis leave on the field various doubts on the fact that the present symbols on the "Moro Battle Flag" are the same of that one cited by Sonnerat.
http://www.flagspot.com/flags/ph-sulhi.html   (1489 words)

  
 Bates Treaty
In his 1919 Report, Carpenter stated that "this satisfactory conclusion has resulted in the forward advance of the policy of amalgamation and in the complete triumph of the ideals of the Government and the Filipino people."
Sixto Orosa, Sulu Archipelago and Its People, World Book Company, (New York, NY, 1931).
After their defeat by the U.S., the Spaniards turned over a garrison on the island of Siasi, southwest of Jolo, to the Sultan, who personally went from his seat in Maimbung on the island of Jolo to Siasi to oversee the transfer.
http://www.philippineupdate.com/Bates.htm   (2609 words)

  
 HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF THE ROYAL SULTANATE OF SULU INCLUDING RELATED EVENTS OF NEIGHBORING PEOPLESBy Josiah C
1638-1640 - Records had it that Sulu Sultan Wasit=s many heroic battles during this period at Bud Datu in Jolo island against the Manila Spaniards were never lucidly recorded; It was Wasit who named this hill to honor the bravery and unconditional loyalty of his datus.
1731 - By decree of a Ming emperor, the remaining 300 survivors of Sulu East King Paduka Batara, now christened as Chinese Wen and Ang families, were assimilated into mainstream Chinese society that made perpetually alive a Tausug bloodline in that part of the world
Orosa, Sixto Y. The Sulu Archipelago and Its People, NY: World Book Co., 1970
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Modules/Modules/MuslimMindanao/historical_timeline_of_the_royal.htm   (6403 words)

  
 THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO
The early population of the archipelago had been influenced by the introduction of Islam toward the end of the fourteenth century by three historic men named Makdum, Raja Baginda, and Abu Bakr.
For 300 years, beginning from the 16th century, the Suluans, as the people of the Sulu Archipelago are called, fought all alien forces that had attempted to dominate them and change their way of life.
The presence of foreign forces in the Sulu islands brought about several conflicts that caused the fall of the first organized state in early Philippines.
http://www.zamboanga.com/html/tourist_sulu_archipelago.htm   (1338 words)

  
 The Provincial Profile of Sulu
It separates the Sulu Sea from the Mindanao Sea.
Spanish attempts to force the Sulus to submission were largely futile.
The Sulus made a heroic stand against the Americans in the Battle of Bud Dajo in 1906.
http://www.geocities.com/lppsec/pp/sulu.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Sulu Archipelago rain forests (IM0156)
Mangroves are still found throughout the coasts of the archipelago and are especially extensive on the island of Tawitawi.
Virtually no forest remains on Sulu Island, and only the eastern and north-central portions of Tawitawi are forested.
Of the smaller islands, some have been degraded but others are fairly intact and shelter important populations of birds.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0156.html   (378 words)

  
 Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines Primer
In Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, they will continue to harass government troops, launch attacks on vulnerable infrastructure targets, bomb Christian municipal targets, and seek to kidnap additional westerners and non-Muslims.
The ASG is holding hostages on Sulu Island, including one American.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) are fighting to oust Manila from Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago and gain Islamic sovereignty over these islands.
http://www.vic-info.org/RegionsTop.nsf/0/587dddc9dda95bfe8a256952006f83e1?OpenDocument   (526 words)

  
 Swish of the Kris - 10. The Sulu Pirates
Flotillas of the Marina Sutil patrolled the seas of Sulu for more than a decade in a vain attempt to curb piracy.
The piracy of Sulu was a sea phase of the military history of the Moros.
They were extremely formidable antagonists and the victories they won on the sea were an important aid in the thwarting of the Spanish conquest of Mindanao and Sulu.
http://www.bakbakan.com/swishk/swk2-10.html   (2495 words)

  
 Sulu Archipelago
This site will be devoted to the people, cultures, history, geography, politics and current events of the Sulu Archipelago,
military "advisors" to Sulu makes under cover of the "war on terrorism" suggests the need for a serious and scholarly site about a part of the globe which may soon be thrust into the headlines.
I hope to make available a substantial part of my own (often difficult to find) writings based on twenty eight months of ethnographic research among the Tausug of Jolo Island.
http://www.suluarchipelago.com   (278 words)

  
 Hello, Jolo
“This means that rather than just importing goods from other places more and more people are actually hauling out their produce and engaging in economic activities,” Luis Go, Sulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry President explains.
This is composed of 6 sites in Basilan, 14 sites in Sulu and 9 sites in Tawi-Tawi.
Progress, like the rise of cellphone towers has been touching even the remote shores of Mindanao’s Sulu Archipelago which covers the provinces of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, and Basilan.
http://www.mindanao.org/news/0501/20.htm   (740 words)

  
 The Gardens Of The Sun: Or A Naturalist's Journal On The Mountains And In The Forests And Swamps Of Borneo And The Sulu ...
The first set of the dried specimens which he brought back numbered nearly a thousand species and was presented by Messrs.
The two appendices on the birds of the Sulu Islands and Kina Balu Mountain were prepared by Bowdler Sharpe from Burbidge's specimens.
Veitch to collect plant specimens in Borneo in 1877.
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/lak/FRBeBURB76.shtml   (266 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Internal Waves, Sulu Sea
EO Newsroom: New Images - Internal Waves, Sulu Sea
In the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Malaysia, sunglint highlights delicate curving lines of internal waves moving to the northeast toward Palawan Island.
The Sulu Sea, like all major bodies of water, is composed of layers of water with differing densities.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15334   (311 words)

  
 Sulu Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sulu Sea is a large sea in the southwestern area of the Philippines.
Sulu Sea is also where the Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park, one of the World Heritage Sites is located.
The Cuyo Islands and Cagayan Sulu are part of the province of Palawan while Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi and the Turtle Islands are part of the province of Tawi-Tawi.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulu_Sea   (123 words)

  
 Sulu Archipelago
Philippines, Sulu Archipelago, Jolo Island and Tapul Group (SuDoc D 5.356:92240/998)
Philippines, Sulu Archipelago, Jolo Island to Basilan Island (SuDoc D 5.356:92220/998)
Philippines, Sulu Archipelago, Jolo Island to Pilas Island (SuDoc D 5.356:92230/996)
http://www.freeglossary.com/Sulu_Archipelago   (155 words)

  
 Sulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its capital is Jolo and occupies the middle group of islands of the Sulu Archipelago, between Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.
Leased to an Austro-Hungarian company in the 1800s who later gave it to a British company (which then became the semi-independent state of North Borneo for some years), the Philippines argue they never formally gave the territory away.
Once ruled by a Sultan, a 1703 treaty between him and the Sultan of Brunei granted the modern Malaysian region of Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulu   (167 words)

  
 Sulu Archipelago
an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0679007.html   (40 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jolo, Sulu
Jolo is also the name of the city on the island which serves as the capital of the Sulu province.
About a third of the island's population live in the city of Jolo.
It is located in the Sulu Archipelago, between Mindanao and Borneo, and has a population of approximately 300,000 people.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Jolo%2C-Sulu   (288 words)

  
 Sulu. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
A member of a Muslim people inhabiting the Sulu Archipelago.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/89/S0878900.html   (74 words)

  
 Philippines - The Sulu Archipelago
It is there that the sultan lives, and there American officials and soldiers are stationed to keep him and his people in order.
The archipelago consists of 188 islands, but they are so small that you could crowd them all into the state of Rhode Island and have space to spare.
The shells are shipped to Europe and to the United States, and according to custom the most of the pearls are given to the sultan.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles09/travel-29.shtml   (1323 words)

  
 Jolo on Encyclopedia.com
The Sea Gypsies of the Sulu Seas are the Badajos whose pirate ancestors were the terror of the Malaysian waters.
53,055), on the northwest coast of the island, is the capital of Sulu prov., the trading and shipping hub of the archipelago, and a Muslim center.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/J/Jolo.asp   (681 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sulu Archipelago
Sulu Archipelago, group of volcanic and coral islands in the southwestern Philippines, between the Sulu and Celebes seas.
Search for books about your topic, "Sulu Archipelago"
The Philippines can be divided into three geographic areas: the northern islands of Luzon and Mindoro, the central islands of the Visayan Islands...
http://encarta.msn.com/Sulu_Archipelago.html   (124 words)

  
 Sulu Archipelago --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It is generally believed, however, that the first movement of humans to this island began 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch...
Forested islets in the Sulu Archipelago, Sulu Sea, Philippines
sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sea and Mindanao Island, on the east by the Sangi Islands chain, on the south by Celebes (Sulawesi), and on the west by Borneo.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070283?tocId=9070283&query=abu   (836 words)

  
 Sulu Archipelago on Encyclopedia.com
The archipelago is also the prime source for pearls, marine turtles, seashells, and sea cucumbers.
Lying between the Celebes and Sulu seas, it includes over 900 volcanic islands and coral islets extending almost to Borneo.
Fairness is key word; (Editor's note: The raging battle in Sulu could be traced to the proliferation of arms, money and lack of fairness noted in this article.).(Opinion and Editorial)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/SuluA1rch.asp   (702 words)

  
 6 dead in fierce clan war in Sulu archipelago - Jan. 07, 2004
Four of those killed were fighting on the side of the Sariul family and two for the Malik family, many of whom were ex-fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the country's largest Muslim separatist group that signed a peace deal with Manila in 1995.
Fighting in the island of Pata, in the Sulu archipelago, began Sunday when members of the Malik clan accused the rival Sariul family of stealing weapons from them, the military said.
Authorities have been clamping down on unlicensed firearms owned by huge political clans in many areas of the southern Philippines, where vendetta killings are common.
http://www.inq7.net/brk/2004/jan/07/brkoth_5-1.htm   (193 words)

  
 The Sulu Archipelago - Gregg Butensky
The Sulu Archipelago comprises some 500 islands and stretches from the southern island of Mindanao, southwest, to Borneo.
A woman earns a living from the wealth of the sea at a colorful fish market on the island of Jolo.
http://www.madnomad.com/gregg/rp_03.html   (134 words)

  
 Port: Sulu Sea
The body of water enclosed by Palawan, the Sulu Archipelago and Borneo is called the Sulu Sea.
Beneath the deep and vast Sulu Sea is an oceanic ridge trending parallel to Palawan and the Sulu archipelago.
Besides the spectacular underwater sceneries, Sulu Sea's atolls and sand cays also offer interesting sights and opportunities for bird photography since the islands are rookeries to hundreds of sea birds -- red-footed boobies, terns and frigates.
http://www.icruise.com/cruise_content/port_Sulu_Sea.htm   (288 words)

  
 Webster's NewWorld Dictionary: Sulu Archipelago@ HighBeam Research
Sulu Archipelago group of islands in the Philippines, southwest...
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28335101&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (90 words)

  
 Anthropology Review Database
Nimmo discusses the other cultures of Sulu as well, including Muslims, Christians and Catholics; displaced Chinese and Americans; priests and nuns.
He has written a great deal about the Bajau, including The Sea People of Sulu, but this is the first time he has written down his personal interactions.
The collection covers every aspect of Nimmo's stay, from his first glimpse of Bongao through the start of the civil war that would deny him access to Sulu, and eventually would destroy the Bajau way of life.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=25   (398 words)

  
 Jolo, Philippines
Jolo is located in the Sulu Archipelago, approximately halfway between Zamboanga on Mindanao Island and the Malaysian state of Sabah.
Sulu the island is in the extreme southern Philippines, in Sulu Province.
Jolo is the largest town on the Island of Sulu.
http://www.waltokon.com/Jolo01.html   (166 words)

  
 Federico's Moro Swords
The Tausug inhabit primarily the islands of the Sulu archipelago.
The three major Muslim tribes are the Maguindanaos (literally meaning The People of the Flood Plain), Maranao (literally meaning The People of the Lake), and Tausugs (literally meaning The People of the Sea Current).
The islands between Palawan and Sulu, called Cagayan de Sulu, are inhabitted by the Jama Mapun.
http://home.earthlink.net/~federicomalibago/intro.html   (391 words)

  
 Sulu Sea - definition of Sulu Sea by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
The Sulu Archipelago, a chain of small islands belonging to the Philippines, separates the Sulu Sea from the Celebes Sea southwest of Mindanao.
Sulu Sea - definition of Sulu Sea by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Sulu+Sea   (102 words)

  
 Mindanao Main Page
Four groups are in the Sulu archipelago: the Yakan of Basilan Island, the Taosug in Jolo, the Samal in Tawi-Tawi and adjacent islands, and the Jama Mapun of Cagayan de Sulu.
The large island of Mindanao and all the smaller islands and islets to the south, including the Sulu archipelago, are home to a diverse culture that cannot be adequately named.
Today, the Muslim Filipinos in Mindanao and Sulu constitute about 17% of the total Southern Philippine population.
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Mindanao_Culture/mindanao_culture.htm   (489 words)

  
 Tausug Resistance to American Occupation ( 1898 - 1913 )
According to Sixto Orosa, the District Health Officer in Sulu during the American occupation "The people did not wish to come under American sovereignty; but Hadji Butu, 'recognizing the folly of armed resistance,' exerted all his influence to prevent another useless and bloody war." (The Sulu Archipelago and Its People, Sixto Orosa, p.
This treaty had the same translation flaws as the one entered into in 1851, where the Spanish version stated it had sovereignty over Sulu whereas the Tausug version had the description of the relationship as being a protectorate rather than a dependency and Sulu customs, laws, religion were not subject to Spanish jurisdiction.
The Americans were also deciding whether to take only Luzon or the whole archipelago.
http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/jolo.html   (745 words)

  
 Tawi-Tawi
Tawi-Tawi also covers some islands in the Sulu Sea to the northwest, the Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi Island and the Turtle Islands, just 20 kilometers away from Sabah.
Most of the municipalities are located on the islands in the Sulu Archipelago.
Two of them, Mapun, and Turtle Islands lie in the Sulu Sea.
http://www.fact-index.com/t/ta/tawi_tawi.html   (123 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
The name Tausug means "people of the sea current." The Tausug probably came to the Sulu Archipelago from northeastern Mindanao as a result of the expansion of Chinese trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
A number of different people groups, known collectively as the South Philippine Muslims, live on the Sulu Archipelago, an island chain between the Philippines and the island of Borneo.
The exact time Islam was introduced to the Tausug is not known.
http://www.ksafe.com/profiles/p_code4/1133.html   (866 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
The 81,000 Central Sama of the Philippines live on several islands in the Sulu Archipelago, near the island of Borneo.
The Sama originally inhabited the islands and coastal areas between the island of Mindanao and the Sulu Islands.
In general, the term Sama refers to a diverse group of Sama-Bajau speaking peoples who are scattered from the central Philippines to the eastern shore of Borneo, and throughout the Indonesian islands.
http://www.ksafe.com/profiles/p_code4/1563.html   (802 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
The Southern Sama of the Philippines live on the Tawi-Tawi island group in the Sulu Archipelago.
Since the early 1970's, the Sulu Archipelago has experienced much political unrest.
The Sama were originally located in the islands and coastal areas separating southwestern Mindanao from the northeastern islands of Sulu.
http://www.ksafe.com/profiles/p_code3/1548.html   (825 words)

  
 Philippines: Philippines National Red Cross and ICRC help displaced families in Sulu
"I believe the Red Cross is respected in Sulu Province," says Pinky, as Preciosa is known to her Red Cross colleagues; "Eventually we were able to penetrate the hinterland, even in areas known to be home to the Abu Sayyaf.
Land travel in the early part of the relief operation was impossible due to the risks of crossfire, landmines and attacks by armed groups.
"It's hard, but we have no choice." The speaker is a young mother of two living near Indanan on the tropical island of Jolo in the Sulu archipelago, in the south-west of the Philippines.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/6AGL68?OpenDocument   (545 words)

  
 Grave marker (sunduk) [Philippines, Sulu Archipelago, probably Bajau people] (1990.338a,b) Object Page Timeline of ...
Lying along the ancient sea trade route between the southern Philippines and Borneo, the islands of the Sulu Archipelago have long been a crossroads of cultures and artistic traditions.
Such influences are evident in the elaborate wooden grave markers of the Bajau people, whose imagery occasionally includes human or animal forms ordinarily prohibited under Islamic religious doctrine.
While the contemporary population is Islamic, the archipelago's art, at times, shows influences from earlier indigenous art forms.
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/11/sse/hod_1990.338a,b.htm   (266 words)

  
 The Moro Massacre - Moorfield Storey
Six hundred bodies were found on the field.
Its area by the last encyclopedia is given at 333 square miles, and its population cannot be large, as the same authority gives the population of the whole Sulu archipelago, consisting of 188 islands, with a total area of 2029 square miles, as 22,620.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ailtexts/mm_moromass.html   (929 words)

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