Metro Manila | Philippines | Travel Video

The history of Manila began around 65,000 BC at the time Callao Man first settled in the Philippines, preceding the arrival of the Negritos and Malayo-Polynesians. Petroglyph Angono nearby, then aged around 3,000 BC and the earliest birth history in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, dating from 900 AD recorded in the Laguna Tembikahan Inscription. In the 13th century, the city consisted of a fine settlement and trade settlement near the mouth of the Pasig River, a river that divides the city to the north and south.

The official name of the city under the Malay aristocracy was Seludong / Selurung, which was the same name for the general area of ​​southwest Luzon at the time, indicating that it was the capital of Ancient Tondo. [Doubtful]

However, the city is known by the name given to it by the residents of Tagalog, Maynil, based on a tilapia factory, flowering mangrove plants that grow on swampy beaches in Manila Bay. [1]

Manila became the center of Spanish colonial rule when it gained sovereignty over the Philippine Islands in 1565. The seat of the Spanish government is located within the walls of the Old Manila fortress (now referred to as Intramuros meaning inside walls). The walls were built to prevent the invasion of Chinese pirates and protect the city from indigenous rebellion. Some communities eventually grow outside the walls of Manila. The city became a trading center between Manila and Acapulco, which lasted for three centuries and brought goods from America to Southeast Asia and vice versa.

In 1762 the city was captured and later occupied by the United Kingdom for two years as part of the Seven Years War. The city remains the capital of the Philippines under the administration of a temporary British governor, acting through the Archbishop of Manila and Real Audiencia. The armed resistance to Britain was centered in Pampanga.

In 1898, Spain surrendered control over the Philippines after more than three hundred years of colonial rule to the United States after the Treaty of Paris (1898), which ended the Spanish-American War. During the American Period, several similarities of urban planning using architectural design and master plans by Daniel Burnham were conducted in the southern part of the Pasig River town.

During World War II, most cities were destroyed, but the city was rebuilt after the war. [2] This is the second most destroyed city in the world after Warsaw, Poland during World War II. The Metropolitan Region of Manila was enacted as an independent entity in 1975.