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Mindanao   /mˌɪndənˈaʊ/  /mˌɪndənˈeɪoʊ/   Listen
Mindanao

noun
1.
The second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic.





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"Mindanao" Quotes from Famous Books



... went to Mindanao in the Philippines. About this time some of our men, who were weary and tired with wandering, ran away into the country. The whole crew were under a general disaffection, and full of different projects, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various
... discalced (or Recollect) Augustinians arrive in the Philippines. The missions established by them are enumerated, many being ceded to them by the regular Augustinians; their labors extend even to Cuyo and Calamianes, and eastern Mindanao, among the Moro peoples. Leon's unexpired term as provincial is most worthily filled by Pedro de Arce. In 1608 he is succeeded by Fray Pedro de Solier, a man of great ability and zeal, who conducts the affairs of the province well, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various
... the eighteenth century the Malays of Bruni, Sulu, and Mindanao, with native followers and allies, inspired we may suppose by the example of their European visitors, took to piracy — not that they had not engaged in such business before, but that they now prosecuted an old trade ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall


Words linked to "Mindanao" :   Moro, island, Philippines, Philippine Islands


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