Qualla: Basilan https://qualla.com/basilan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Basilan https://qualla.com/basilan Basilan: Introduction https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Skyeraeder, Public domain. Antonio Pigafetta, chronicler of the Magellan Expedition, recorded the island's name as Taghima. European mapmakers tried Tanguima, Taglima, Tagimar, and Tagyto before a Jesuit historian, Father Colin, settled on Basilan. The Yakan people, the island's indigenous inhabitants, had their own names: Uleyan, after the great peak now called Basilan Peak, and later Matangal, after a mountain farther east. Each name was a claim of ownership. The island has been claimed by many: by the Yakan, the Tausug, the Chavacano, the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese, and the Philippine government. It has rarely been at peace long enough for any single claim to go unchallenged.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/w9nv-basilan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Basilan: Three Peoples, Four Languages https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Skyeraeder, Public domain. Basilan is home to three main ethnolinguistic groups whose coexistence defines the island's character. The Yakan, the indigenous people, comprise about 41 percent of the population, predominantly Muslim, controlling local governments outside the two cities. The Tausug, who arrive...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/w9nv-basilan-three-peoples-four-languages.mp3 0:06 2 full Basilan: The Rubber That Built an Economy https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Jjarivera, Public domain. Around 1914, an American named Dr. James W. Strong cleared vast tracts of Basilan's northern plains and established what became the Philippines' first commercial rubber plantation. After consulting with Father Zamora, a botanist at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Strong ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/w9nv-basilan-the-rubber-that-built-an-economy.mp3 0:06 3 full Basilan: The Insurgency and Its Consequences https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Skyeraeder, Public domain. The Moro uprising of 1971, led by the Moro National Liberation Front's Nur Misuari, arrived in Basilan from Sulu and upended the island's fragile balance. President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972. The decree that created Basilan as a separate province came in the s...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/w9nv-basilan-the-insurgency-and-its-consequences.mp3 0:06 4 full Basilan: Bellwether in the Margins https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Skyeraeder, Public domain. Despite its distance from Manila and its reputation for instability, Basilan has been one of the most accurate bellwether provinces in Philippine politics. In five consecutive presidential elections, the province voted for the winning candidate: Ferdinand Marcos in 1965 and 1969,...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/n/v/basilan-wp/w9nv-basilan-bellwether-in-the-margins.mp3 0:06 5 full Basilan: Outside the Typhoon Belt https://qualla.com/basilan/ Photo credit Ralff Nestor Nacor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Basilan lies outside the Philippines' typhoon belt, giving it a climate distinct from much of the archipelago. Annual rainfall averages 1,100 millimeters, with a mean temperature of 26.6 degrees Celsius. The southwest monsoon and the island's position in the Intertropical Converg...

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