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| | Philippines |
 | | When Ferdinand Magellan claimed the islands for Spain in 1521, native society was generally divided into barangays (kinship units); there was no central government to mount effective resistance. |
 | | A subsequent Spanish expedition, led by Ruy L—pez de Villalobos, named the islands in honor of the infante, later King Philip II. |
 | | 1984); Phelan, J. L., The Hispanization of the Philippines (1959); Rosenberg, D., ed., Marcos and Martial Law in the Philippines (1979); Schirmer, D. B., and Shalom, S. R., eds., The Philippines Reader (1987); Steinberg, D. J., The Philippines (1982); Thompson, M. |
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