This section presents articles about Lapulapu and Magellan and the early Spanish contact
with the Philippines.
Did Lapulapu, our first national hero, settle in a village called Bagasumbol, the old
name of Naval, the capital town of Biliran Province north of Leyte? Find out for yourself
in this most visited article in this website.
The Portuguese name of Ferdinand Magellan was carved on a rock in Homonhon
Island, in southern Samar, apparently by Portuguese crew of the Magellan Expedition
after their landfall on March 17, 1521. This article is about that rock, missing since
last photographed in 1968.
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan died fighting warriors led by native chieftain
Lapulapu in the Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521. But was his act a virtual case of
suicide?
"This is Iti's land!" Corrupted to Leyte, the name is a shout of protest and resistance against colonizers and invaders that echoes through the centuries.
This article discusses some fiction that had been passed off as facts and became part of
the conventional history of the Leyte-Samar region.