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ORIGINAL SITE OF BILIRAN POBLACION? This riverside location in the present Barangay Caraycaray of Naval town is the theoretical site of the original poblacion of Biliran when it was established as a pueblo (town) covering the entire island in 1712. The site is indicated in an old Franciscan map that had been dated around 1770. The settlement was raided, occupied and destroyed by Moro raiders in May 1754. The poblacion was later transferred to an area in the present Barangay Hugpa of Biliran town around 1765.
This old poblacion site is being proposed as the site of the Bagasumbul Heritage Park Project in the town of Naval. A historical marker from the National Historical Institute (NHI) has been proposed to be installed in the area to memorialize the Naval geography's contribution to national history, preferably next year, in time for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Naval parish and pueblo in 1980. The position paper submitted to the NHI may be accessed by clicking the appropriate title below.
In 2010, the Municipality of Naval, the capital town of Biliran Province, will commemorate the 150th anniversary of its creation as a separate parish and pueblo in 1860. To mark this religious, historical and cultural occasion, we submit this position paper to the National Historical Institute (NHI), which hopefully could serve as documentation basis for this government body to consider the creation of an appropriate historical marker that memorializes our town’s contribution to national history, preferably in time for the festivities next year....
AFTER 50 years of enigma, the text inscribed around the shoulder of the Calatagan Pot, the country’s oldest cultural artifact with pre-Hispanic writing, may have been deciphered as written in the old Bisayan language....
On April 27, 2006, Fuji TV, Japan's largest TV station, presented a documentary feature story about Leyte, its jeepney-making industry, and the work of Prof. Rolando O. Borrinaga, webmaster of this website, in its "World Caravan" program. The seven-minute feature was woven around a “thank you” letter to Professor Borrinaga, written by a Japanese student of Tokyo International University, who expressed her gratitude for the positive impact on her life of the study tour she had joined, which he had coordinated. The feature has now been posted in two parts in youtube.com, which you can access using the links above. Sorry, but the language of the entire program is Japanese.
Lecture at the Symposium on Biliran History and Culture, which preceded the book launching of Leyte-Samar Shadows: Essays on the History of Eastern Visayas at the New Audio Visual Room, Andaya Building at the Naval Institute of Technology, October 3, 2008.
Paper presented at the Historical Lecture on Naval Pueblo Day, Sangguniang Bayan Session Hall, Naval, Biliran Province, September 26, 2007.
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Welcome to the homepage of Naval, the capital town of Biliran Province in the Leyte-Samar (Eastern Visayas) region of the Philippines. We tread the less beaten path by presenting the unique history and culture of a remote provincial town rather than the usual beaches and nature sights. Through this corner of cyberspace, we hope Navalians in diaspora could bond with their cultural roots and find links with fellow Navalians and their kin in other parts of the country and around the world. Stay around, and have a wonderful time! |
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