cebu city is the oldest street in the philippines.
cebu city is the oldest street in the philippines.
what is the oldest street in the philippines?
cebu city
when the spaniards led by miguel lópez de legazpi came to panay from cebu in 1569, after sailing from mexico, they found people with tattoos, and so they called the island "isla de los pintados". how the island itself came to be called panay is uncertain. the aeta (negritos) called it aninipay, after a plant that abounded in the island. legend has it that lópez de legazpi and his men, in search of food, exclaimed upon the island, "pan hay en esta isla"! "there is bread in this island"! and the island of panay closely resembles the shape of a heart and the heart of jesus christ is considered present in the eucharistic bread. panay is also an echo of pannai, a constituent state in srivijaya that housed an officially buddhist monastic-army that defended the conflict-prone strait of malacca, the world's busiest maritime trade route for half a millennium and had successfully defended the territory against larger navies from giant countries like india, china and indonesia before a treacherous and unexpected attack from the chola-occupied capital destroyed srivijaya and sacked pannai. idealistic datus and their most faithful soldiers who refused to submit to foreign imperialism left the golden chains they had in sumatra and migrated to panay island to rebuild a society much truer to their ideals and had even achieved more democracy since they developed their initial mandala even further, the original concept of the mandala being a dynamic interaction sphere based on tantric cosmology and political thought, with a definite center and the datus of panay then expounded on that tradition and decided to make the mandala resistant to destruction by making it into a kedatuan, establishing a semi-democratic hindu-budhist influenced confederation known as the kedatuan of madja-as where capitals and were routinely being transferred and different datus took turns holding the crown. the spanish then came and established their first settlement on the island at the mouth of the banica river and called it pan-ay. this was the second spanish settlement in the philippines, following san miguel, cebu. unknown to many, calle revolución in panay town is the second oldest street in the philippines after calle colon in cebu city, central visayas.
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central street (taiwan)









































central street () is a street in magong city, penghu county, taiwan. it is the oldest street in the city.









































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the area of the street was the first settlement in the island.









































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the oldest street in makung, this winding, brick paved pedestrian street, located behind the city's matsu temple, features the shihkung ancestral shrine and the well of a thousand soldiers. in 1682 the goddess matsu is said to have bequeathed a magical well to ming soldiers massing for an invasion of taiwan.
central street (taiwan)