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Republic of the Philippines

República de Filipinas—Republika ñg Pilipinas

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The Philippines were discovered by Magellan in 1521 and conquered by Spain in 1565. Following the Spanish-American war, the islands were ceded to the U.S.A. on 10 Dec. 1898, after the Filipinos had tried in vain to establish an independent republic in 1896.

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Books of Reference

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S. H. Steinberg Ph.D. (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society)

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© 1959 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1959). Republic of the Philippines. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270886_67

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