Visayas
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- proper noun
- They were a diverse group, with twenty provinces represented; about a third came from Manila and surrounding provinces, and a fourth from the Visayas.
- the central Visayas
Examples
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On the one hand, Siquijor was the twenty-seventh largest island in an archipelago of over 7,100 islands; it also had the administrative status of a province within Region VII, called Central Visayas.
Academic text (1995) -
Such had been the case of Siquijor, always subordinated to some neighboring island in the Visayas, its identity trampled at the periphery of larger identities, the concerns of which were rarely consonant with its own.
Academic text (1995) -
How she had gone with a few of her schoolmates to a remote province in the Visayas.
Fiction book (2000) -
KEYWORDS: Philippines; Visayas; Siquijor; political identity; social identity; political culture
Academic text (1995) -
Pedro Calungsod was born around the year sixteen fifty-four in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
Blog text (23) -
A similar business incubator for social enterprises can, perhaps, be replicated in another province in Visayas or Mindanao and be designated as a special economic zone that provides facilities and incentives to business locators.
Academic text (2016) -
In my experience of the central Visayas, lowland Christians are neither passive puppets of the state nor withdrawn peasants nor exactly isolated villagers when it comes to asserting their social and political identities.
Academic text (1995) -
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Philippine islanders of the central Visayas, this article documents the different ways, sometimes complementary and sometimes supplementary, in which different persons on the island of Siquijor construct their social identities.
Academic text (1995) -
While our study provides empirical support for the propositions of Dees and Anderson (2002) and illustrations of Alter's (2006) social enterprise models, it would not hurt to do more case studies, especially about social enterprises based in the Visayas and Mindanao, to determine whether similar insights will be generated by additional cases operating in different contexts.
Academic text (2016) -
Pedro Calungsod was born around the year sixteen fifty-four in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
Synonyms
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5.9
A group of islands in the central Philippines between Luzon and Mindanao
A group of islands in the central Philippines that makes a major region
Surface Forms
Etymology
Visayas comes from the name of the people who live there, the Bisaya or Visayan. A helpful way to remember it is to think of Visayas as 'the islands of the Bisaya people', which is why the name refers to this group of central Philippine islands.