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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chabacano language
		Chabacano is concentrated mostly in the provinces of Zamboanga, Cotabato with some speakers found in Ternate in Cavite.
		Zamboangueño is the variety with the most number of speakers, being the main language of Zamboanga City.
		Zamboanga City is a 1st class city in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chabacano_language (1409 words)

	Zamboanga City -- U.S. Commercial Service Philippines
		Zamboanga City is situated on the southernmost tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula, on the island of Mindanao, 530 miles south of Manila.
		Zamboanga City is one of the largest cities by area in the world, with a total land area of 142,099.99 hectares or 1,420.99 square kilometers.
		The population is 442,345, and the major languages spoken are Pilipino, English and Chinese.
	www.buyusa.gov /philippines/en/zamboangacity.html (235 words)

	Zamboanga del Norte : Province Brief History
		The Spanish colony and fort of Zamboanga was the principal seat of Spanish authority.
		Zamboanga was made one of the six districts of Mindanao and Sulu.
		Pablo Lorenzo of Zamboanga City was appointed Congressman in 1916-1919.
	zamboangadelnorte.com /ZDNhistoricalAccount.htm (2018 words)

	Welcome to the City of Zamboanga : Zamboanga Mi Amor
		Zamboanga has a land area of 1,421 square hectares, with a population of over 600,000 blessed with a warm tropical climate, situated outside the typhoon belt and earthquake area.
		It is located at the tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula; sorrounded by the Sulu Sea on the west; the Moro Gulf on the east and in the south are Basilan Strait and Celebes Sea.
		Zamboanga has always occupied a prominent position as the political and cultural seat of government from Spaniards and American era, up to the present.
	zamboanga.net /Arts&CultureZamboangaMiAmor.htm (284 words)

	Zamboanga City - Definition, explanation
		The city sits on the Basilan Strait: the mountains of Basilan Island are visible from the city.
		Fort Zamboanga was founded, in 1635, by the Spanish, and was the focus of a number of battles between Moro pirates and the Spanish until 1718, when a modifications to the fort were made.
		In 17 October 2002, the Zamboanga bombings occurred, and in 2003, Zamboanga was used as a base for 300 United States military advisors to the Philippines army in their operations against the separatists.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/z/za/zamboanga_city.php (603 words)

	Zamboanga City Summary
		Zamboanga City is a 1st class city in the Philippines and one of the first chartered cities in the country.
		Zamboanga has been the center of commerce, trade, health services, and education for all of the Western Mindanao Region and home of the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority (popularly known as Zamboecozone).
		Zamboanga City is currently in the midst of a determined campaign to attract investors -- domestic and foreign.
	www.bookrags.com /Zamboanga_City (3185 words)

	Resort in Zamboanga, Philippines
		Nestled on the tip of Northern Zamboanga, Dakak faces the Sulu Sea in the west and is surrounded by mountains on its east side.
		Tropical cyclones or typhoons rarely affect the city because it is outside the typhoon belt.
		Zamboanga City has 19 seaports and wharves, twelve of which are privately owned.
	www.asiatravel.com /zamboanga.html (562 words)

	Welcome to the City of Zamboanga : Investment Oppotunity
		Zamboanga City is the center of commerce and industry in Western Mindanao.
		The city is also the regional center for administration, culture, arts and education, hosting the various regional offices of government, private institutions, and a cluster of high-standard educational institutions.
		From 1903 to 1913, Zamboanga was the capital of the Moro Province which was the whole of Mindanao, comprising five districts, namely: Cotabato, Davao, Sulu, Lanao and Zamboanga.
	zamboanga.net /Investment.htm (458 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Famous For
		The City Government of Zamboanga conducts the Regatta in the form of a race of colorful vintas, and fabulous prizes are given to winners.
		Zamboanga City was named the City of Flowers for two reasons: literally, for its profusion of flowers and, figuratively, for its beautiful people.
		Zamboanga City is blessed with beautiful beaches where domestic and foreign tourists can come and enjoy.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=famousefor&province=99 (744 words)

	Zamboanga, Philippines top Destination
		Isabela City is actually part of the island-province of Basilan to the south of the peninsula, and is that province's capital.
		Zamboanga Peninsula consists of the territory of the three Zamboanga provinces and its lone chartered city of Zamboanga City, plus Misamis Occidental.
		Owing to its natural land form, the province of Zamboanga Sibugay is blessed with an impressive range of excellent tourist destinations – interesting mountain formations, picture-perfect waterfalls, caves in which dwell thousands of bats as well as stalactites, hot springs, white sand beaches, and fish and sea snake sanctuaries.
	www.philippinestravelandtours.com /TopDestination/Zamboanga/index.html (637 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		ZAMBOANGA CITY - The local government formally launched on Thursday the branding of Zamboanga as "Asiaâs Latin City" in a simple ceremony held during the opening of the 15th Mindanao Business Conference at the Astoria Regency, Pasonanca Park, here.
		Mayor Celso Lobregat explained at the project launching the basis for branding the Zamboanga as a Latin city is the existence of Chavacano, a derivative of the Spanish language that in turn is an outgrowth of Latin, the old Roman tongue.
		The growth of Chavacano in Zamboanga can be traced to a concentration of Spanish nationals in Zamboanga at the height of the Spaniards' colonization efforts in Mindanao that lasted for centuries until the late 1800.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storyPage.aspx?storyId=49353 (893 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description
		As far back as the 13th and 14th centuries, it was already a trading center with a vibrant culture of its own, emblazoned against the horizon in the vivid colors of the native vinta sails that fluttered gaily off its shores.
		The best recuerdo of la presencia de España in Zamboanga was and remains to be Fort Pilar, the coastal fort built in 1635 around which the city first grew.
		Zamboanga City enjoys a location that is free from the typhoon belt area.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=99 (459 words)

	Archdiocese of Zamboanga (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Diocese of Zamboanga was further divided when the Diocese of Davao was established and separated in 1949; the Prelature of Cotabato in 1950; the Prelature of Isabela, Basilan, in 1967, and finally the Prelature of Ipil in 1980.
		Zamboanga was raised to an archdiocese on May 15, 1958 by Pope Pius XII.
		For the church in Zamboanga, the challenge is to incarnate in the archdiocese the vision of PCP II.
	www.cbcponline.org /jurisdictions/zamboanga.html (502 words)

	My Hometown Zamboanga City
		Zamboanga is historically known as the City of Flowers (Ciudad dela Flores).
		he present day Zamboanga City Hall is a historical site because this was built from the period 1903-1913 under the administration of Governor General Leonard O. Wood, first Governor of the Province.
		Zamboanga City is located in the northwestern corner of the big island of Mindanao.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/nbondoc/myhometown.htm (324 words)

	In Zamboanga City, Even Toddler Begs For Alms « The Mindanao Examiner
		ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 06 Mar) A twelve-year old Muslim boy tags his younger brother to beg for money and food in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
		He says he lives in the Muslim enclave of Rio Hondo, one of the poorest in Zamboanga, now branded by local politicians as Asia’s Latin City, because of Spain’s influence and the “corrupted” dialect known as Chabacano, which is widely spoken here.
		Many Muslim villages in Zamboanga City have been neglected because most of the government projects are concentrated in Christian areas.
	zamboangajournal.wordpress.com /2007/03/06/in-zamboanga-city-even-toddler-begs-fort-alms (197 words)

	Welcome to the City of Zamboanga : Zamboanga Mi Amor
		It is located at the tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula; sorrounded by the Sulu Sea on the west; the Moro Gulf on the east and in the south are Basilan Strait and Celebes Sea.
		It was designated as the seat of government for the Moro Province, and later transfer to the Provincial government, during World Was II, the building was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army, until its liberation by the U.S. Forces in 1945.
		Zamboanga has always occupied a prominent position as the political and cultural seat of government from Spaniards and American era, up to the present.
	www.zamboanga.net /Arts&CultureZamboangaMiAmor.htm (284 words)

	Galing Pook Foundation
		Zamboanga City was originally chosen as one of the sentinel sites by the Department of Health’s (DOH) National HIV Sentinel Surveillance System in the battle against the spread of AIDS/HIV because of its strategic location.
		But Zamboanga City’s local government officials have come up with a possible solution to this potential threat by implementing a project that would monitor, control and prevent the possible outbreak of HIV/AIDS and STDs/STIs in their city, and safeguard the whole country in the process.
		At present, Zamboanga City is one of the nine local government units (LGUs) in the country that have developed a reliable system to monitor and counter the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and infections (STDs/STIs).
	www.galingpook.org /awardees/2006/2006_moving_zambo.htm (1562 words)

	Resort in Zamboanga, Philippines
		Zamboanga City : Zamboanga City is situated on the southernmost tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula, on the island of Mindanao, 530 miles south of Manila.
		Zamboanga City is one of the largest cities by area in the world, with a total land area of 142,099.99 hectares or 1,420.99 square kilometers.
		Zamboanga City has 19 seaports and wharves, twelve of which are privately owned.
	asiatravel.com /zamboanga.html (537 words)

	Zamboanga City travel guide - Wikitravel
		Zamboanga City is in the Mindanao region of the Philippines.
		Plaza Pershing was established in Zamboanga City, Philippines to honor John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) with his victory over Muslim insurgents.
		Zamboanga City's Serenity Falls bounded between La Paz and Pamucutan, at the foot of the EcoZone's south entrance.
	wikitravel.org /en/Zamboanga_City (1406 words)

	Zamboanga City at AllExperts
		Zamboanga City is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Philippines and one of the first chartered cities in the country.
		The city is also home of the first Catholic diocese in Mindanao, today's Archdiocese of Zamboanga, created in 1910 and elevated to an archbishopric in 1958.
		Prior to World War II, Zamboanga was the center of commerce, trade and government in Mindanao, being the capital of Mindanao Province and Zamboanga Province.
	en.allexperts.com /e/z/za/zamboanga_city.htm (2823 words)

	Zamboanga.com - The Internet Portal of Zamboanga City, The City of Flowers, Philippines.
		The City government provided in this Charter shall be organized immediately after the appointment and qualification of the City Mayor, and the appointment and induction into office of the members of the City Council, as herein provided, or as soon thereafter as possible.
		This was the day that a permanent foothold was laid on Zamboanga by the Spanish government with the construction of the San José Fort, and the subsequent evolution and proliferation of a unique dialect/language based on ancient Creole Spanish that is called Chavacano de Zamboanga.
		NEDA has been quite satisfied with their decision on Zamboanga City for the past 11 years, but now Arroyo’s dictate in MC#75 is superseding their constitutional authority.
	www.zamboanga.com (2849 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| REGIONS > Authorities round up street children in Zamboanga City
		ZAMBOANGA CITY: Dozens of street children and beggars were rounded up in downtown Zamboanga City over the weekend in an effort to curb the growing number of mendicants, largely blamed for petty crimes.
		Many children in Zamboanga City have abandoned their chances for education to sell scraps and help feed their poor families.
		Zamboanga City’s street children rarely become beneficiaries of valuable aid.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/july/10/yehey/prov/20060710pro4.html (600 words)

	The Mindanao Examiner: December 2005
		ZAMBOANGA CITY (Zamboanga Journal) Prostitution and human trafficking are alarmingly increasing in many areas in the southern Philippines, and worst, local officials can do little to put a stop these nefarious activities.
		A famous landmark in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines is the decades-old tree house in Pasonanca village.
		ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZamboangaJournal) For its residents, Lumbangan is a man-made hill of poverty, a symbol of a struggle for many who brave the heat and cold in search of scrap.
	zamboangajournal.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_zamboangajournal_archive.html (5311 words)

	The Asia Foundation
		Zamboanga City, Philippines - August 28, 2006 - Zamboanga City hosted today a ceremony highlighting the distribution of more than 17,700 books to all public elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, and local government libraries from across the City of Zamboanga and the island of Basilan.
		Among key people who graced the occasion were Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat and other city government officials, City and Municipal Mayors from Basilan Province, and officials of the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education.
		According to Mayor Celso Lobregat, "The City of Zamboanga is very grateful to The Asia Foundation for its Books for Asia Program with support from United States Agency for International Development.
	www.asiafoundation.org /Locations/philippines_books2.html (619 words)

	TravelPhilippines: Destination: Zamboanga City
		Zamboanga City is a first class, highly urbanized city on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines and one of the first chartered cities in the country.
		Regatta de Zamboanga One of the many festivals of Zamboanga City, the Regatta de Zamboanga is a festival of colorful sailboats.
		City of Flowers and Beautiful People Zamboanga City was named the City of Flowers for two reasons: literally, for its profusion of flowers and, figuratively, for its beautiful people.
	letsgotophilippines.blogspot.com /2007/07/destination-zamboanga-city.html (1089 words)

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