Tondo is Real Old Options

[flipcombatmedic]

according to this, Tondo is a 1000 years old. I thought the place was only developed after Rajah Sulayman evacuated Maynilad.

"Historically, Tondo was first mentioned in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription found in the National Museum of the Philippines, dated April 21, 900. See History of the Philippines."




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tondo,_Manila

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[PervertBurger]

wow and who is Rajah Sulayman?

[flipcombatmedic]

wow and who is Rajah Sulayman?

last sovereign "king" of Manila, or Maynilad i should say, before the Spanish took it over.

[» jOie]

oh yeah, pretty old. way before philippines became philippines (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif)

[JMAC]

wow and who is Rajah Sulayman?

last sovereign "king" of Manila, or Maynilad i should say, before the Spanish took it over.

was he an ethnic malay or a foreigner?

[flipcombatmedic]

wow and who is Rajah Sulayman?

last sovereign "king" of Manila, or Maynilad i should say, before the Spanish took it over.

was he an ethnic malay or a foreigner?

Muslim malay.

[tehwprks]

Apparently they had a translation of this plate roaming somewhere. Sort of reminiscent of "The Wanderer" in old english. Anyone know of this?

[Forumwalker]

there are other places older than Tondo.. most of those places are located in Visayas and mindanao. Tondo smells spanish.

[kim_kayie]

tondo is one of the scariest place in metro manila.they say...

[flipcombatmedic]

there are other places older than Tondo.. most of those places are located in Visayas and mindanao. Tondo smells spanish.

no offense, but FW you seem anti Luzonite/Manila all the time.

of course there are alot of older towns and "civilizations" other than tondo. but even so it is a popular theory that Luzon was people by Malayans first (not proto Malayans)

and to say that "Tondo smells spanish" is quiet incongruent.

1. Tondo existed way before the Spanish came.

2. It is where Panday Pira, and Rajah Sulayman and much of Maynilad's "anti Spanish insurgents" continued to thrive. in fact though Sulayman died shortly afterward he did raise another rebellion from Tondo, where he lived after his expulsion and taking over of Maynilad. In fact it think Bonifacio was also raised in Tondo, and the it was one the earlier places where Katipunan was first founded.

3 On the other hand it is a common knowledge that "pintados" (I'm mostly Visayan and I'm saying this) where the first tribes who helped the Spanish.