Qualla: Tanjay https://qualla.com/tanjay 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/x/w/tanjay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tanjay https://qualla.com/tanjay Tanjay: Introduction https://qualla.com/tanjay/ Photo credit Rc ramz, CC BY 4.0. Before the Spanish arrived, before the parish registers began, before the name was even spelled the way it is today, people were already living in what we now call Tanjay. Archaeological excavations have turned up artifacts from the 1st to 4th centuries and trade goods from the 12th-century Song dynasty, evidence of a settlement enmeshed in the commerce of the South China Sea long before Europeans knew these islands existed. The city that occupies this ground today -- home to 84,593 people as of the 2024 census -- is the inheritor of one of the longest settlement histories in the Philippines.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/x/w/tanjay-wp/w9xw-tanjay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tanjay: Refugees and Founders https://qualla.com/tanjay/ Photo credit Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee), CC BY-SA 3.0. Tanjay's founding story is one of displacement. In 1563, undercover Ternatean forces aided by Portuguese raiders attacked the settlement of Bol-anon on the island of Bohol. The assault was devastating -- mass looting, the burning of homes, and the enslavement of captured inhabita...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/x/w/tanjay-wp/w9xw-tanjay-refugees-and-founders.mp3 0:06 2 full Tanjay: The Parish and the Empire https://qualla.com/tanjay/ Photo credit DINS-COM, CC BY-SA 4.0. Catholicism came to southeastern Negros through the Augustinians. The Definitorium of June 11, 1580, records the foundation of the Tanjay Parish, with jurisdiction extending to Dumaguete, Siaton, Marabago, and Manalongon -- a vast territory that encompassed much of the island's s...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/x/w/tanjay-wp/w9xw-tanjay-the-parish-and-the-empire.mp3 0:06 3 full Tanjay: A Landscape of Lowland and Hills https://qualla.com/tanjay/ Photo credit Joelaldor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tanjay occupies 27,605 hectares of terrain unique in Negros Oriental: it is the only city in the province with a very wide, flat lowland. This expanse of agricultural land, stretching from the coast into the interior, made Tanjay a center of farming even as hills and rolling terr...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/x/w/tanjay-wp/w9xw-tanjay-a-landscape-of-lowland-and-hills.mp3 0:06 4 full Tanjay: Cinema, Diplomacy, and the Written Word https://qualla.com/tanjay/ Photo credit Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill), Public domain. For a provincial city, Tanjay has produced a remarkable number of nationally prominent figures. Eddie Romero, a National Artist of the Philippines for Cinema and Broadcast Arts, was born here. His films ranged from war dramas to horror, and he helped define Philippine cinema's in...

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