PHILIPPINE PLACE NAMES MENTIONED IN EARLY SPANISH HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS

The antiquity of provinces,towns, villages/barrios can be traced back to the accounts of navigators, "conquistadores" , priests and administrative officials during the early days of Spanish conquest of the Philippines. I have consulted the following sources :

P- Antonio Pigafetta .Magellan's Voyage:A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation.
(1526/1994)




BOHOL- Bohol
CEBU- Zzubu ( P :Ch. XIX 71)
Mazau - Limasawa (?)

LEYTE- (name not mentioned by Pigafetta ,only specific places:)
Baibai -Baybay (P:Ch.XX,73)
Panaon (P: Ch.XX,73 )

SAMAR- Zsamal ( P : Ch.XVI,61-64)
Humunu- Homonhon ( P: XVII:64)
Zsuluan - Suluan (P: Ch. XVII, 64)


SURIGAO
( Note: Name of Surigao ,not mentioned by Pigafetta,but named islands between Samar
and Mindanao: )

Cenalo- Dinagat (?) )
Hinnangar- Kabugan (?)) ( P: 65-69)
Ibusson-Hibuson )
Abarien -Cabalian )

Butuan -(P: Ch.XIX,70)
Calaghan- (P: Ch.XIX,70) -Caraga
Mazzaua- Masao (?)