Found these maps:

Map of the City of Manila in 1851. The Top left side shows the walled City from the Sea. The Top Right side shows the city from the land. http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...Manila_1851.jpg

Map showing the Philippines in 1858. It seems to show that parts of Palawan and Mindin. were not included in Spanish controlled Philippines.
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...do_Bay_1858.jpg

This map from 1860 shows the philippines areas of Zamboanga, Sual and Iloilo.
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...Taiwan_1860.jpg

Map of 1942 Invasion of the Philippines. Did not know Japanese attacked from Palau and heavily from Formosa.
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...ppines_1941.jpg

Map of Battle of Batan 1942
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...Bataan_1942.jpg

Map showing Japanese troops in Luzon:
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his..._enemy_1945.jpg

Map of a US landing
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...n_army_1945.jpg

Map of Central and Northern Luzon 1945
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...troops_1945.jpg

Map of retaking of Manila 1945
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...Manila_1945.jpg

Map of Wawa Dam attack 1945
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...wa_dam_1945.jpg

Map of US liberation of the Philippines 1944-45.
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/his...ine_1944-45.jpg

Some map collections of the Philippines: http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Philippines/

have anything older then that??

cool man!

are there any available maps from 1600's or 1500's?

i was also thinking of the same thing... tried looking for such old maps of the Philippines on the span of 1500 - 1600... the search engine gave no possible results...

Problem with real old maps is they are not very accurate.

Here this map will take you to some older maps and photos of Philippines. Its in Spanish. English Version button was not working.
http://www.armada15001900.net/filipinas1.htm

This will take you to a 1587 Spanish map of the Philippines. As you can see it does not seem to really resemble the Philippines.
http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/historia/obras/11087.htm

This site shows near the bottom of the page some maps of the sea routes between the Philippines and the Americas.
Most of the info. on the top is talking about Acapulco.
http://www.armada15001900.net/elcaminodeoriente.htm

I found this site on the last Colonies of Spain. It shows the last colonies Spain had from 1830 on. Near the beginning they have an explanation in English, Spanish, Tagalog and other.

Has a separate Philippines section which has info., map and 19 century photos of the Philippines. Some photos cannot be enlarged.
Photos: http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/views19.htm

By the way I did not know you could ride a Carabao.


Includes novel by Rizal - "Noli me tángere". You can read it on-line but its in its original text in Spanish. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/Si...65679/index.htm

Back to maps: Found this 1890. Seems to show where the infidels and Moros were located. Its in Spanish so will translate the map key:

Red Color - Territory of the Christian Hispanic - Filipinos
Yellow Color - Territory of the New Christian and of the infidels.
Green Color - Territory of the Moros.

This is the map: http://es.geocities.com/coloniasesp/fbluma.jpg Today that map would probably show mostly red color.

Found this except from a Spanish book written in 1886. It seems the Spaniards considered the Philippines one of its important regions but that few Spaniards even the intellects knew anything about the Philippines. They said the Germans knew more about the Philipines. Writer says, it sounds unbelieveable that Spaniards do not know anything about the Philippines but he says it true. Talking to important politicians, Generals and writers proved it.


So the Germans knew more about the Philippines. Do you think they would have tried to overthrow the Independent Republic of the Philippines in 1898 if the US had not gotten in the way??

For more maps on the Philippines must probably search sites from Spain. Thats where I got most of the above.

Great links

i was actually looking for an old pic of our place here in the Philippines(pampanga to be exact)... cant find some.. huhuhuhu

^This might help if you are looking for photos of areas in Pampanga:
http://www.geocities.com/balen_net/ivan01.htm
http://www.geocities.com/balen_net/index.htm

And here maybe you can find something: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=425115


Did find a story in Spanish about the Pampanga language. Seems a book written by Spanish padre Diego Bergaño in the 1700's, 161 years before the Spaniards took control of the Pampanga region and contaminated the language with Spanish words, is finally to be translated by two Spanish speaking Filipino padre s, Edilberto Santos and Venancio Samson. The books are called "El Arte de la Lengua Pampanga (1729)" and "el Vocabulario de Pampango (1732). Seems it will revitalize Kapampangan (pampango) language since there are many words which are being rediscovered. Seems many Flipino languages were preserved this way

^

thanx man! your such a great help!