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    The document discusses the barangays, which were the well-organized independent villages that the first Spaniards discovered the early Filipinos living in during the 16th century. The name barangay originated from the Malay word meaning sailboat, as the seafaring ancestors had named their villages after their sailboats. Each barangay was a self-sustaining community consisting of 30 to 100 families and ruled by a datu, with some barangays having large populations of over 2,000 people, including notable ones like Sugbu, Maynilad, Bigan, and Maktan.

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    The document discusses the barangays, which were the well-organized independent villages that the first Spaniards discovered the early Filipinos living in during the 16th century. The name barangay originated from the Malay word meaning sailboat, as the seafaring ancestors had named their villages after their sailboats. Each barangay was a self-sustaining community consisting of 30 to 100 families and ruled by a datu, with some barangays having large populations of over 2,000 people, including notable ones like Sugbu, Maynilad, Bigan, and Maktan.

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    " The Barangays.

    When the first Spaniards arrived in the 16th


    century, they were surprised to sce the early Filipinos having a civiliza-
    tion of their own and living in well-organized independent villages
    called barangays. The name barangay originated from balangay, a Malay
    word meaning “sailboat”! Evidently, our seafaring ancestors named
    their villages after their sailboats.

    The barangay was a self-sustaining community, ruled by a datu.


    Generally, it consisted of from 30 to 100 families. Some barangays were
    quite large, each having a population of more than 2,000. Among them
    were Sugbu (Cebu), Maynilad (Manila), Bigan (Vigan) and Maktan
    (Mactan). \.

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