Philippine President Duterte
Overseas Network, February 11th Philippine President Duterte said on the 11th that because the name "Philippines" has colonialism, he is likely to change the official name of the Philippines Changed to "Maharlika", meaning "noble" or "free man".
According to Philippine ABS-CBN TV, Duterte said today (11th) when hosting an event in the town of Buluan in the southern Philippines: "We are helplessly called the Philippines because the colonizer Magellan used King Philip of Spain discovered this land, but it doesn't matter, we can change the name."
He continued: "In fact, former President Marcos (Ferdinand Marcos) was right. Yes, when he was president, he once wanted to change the name of the country to 'Mahalika Republic', which in Filipino refers to the warrior nobles or free men in the feudal era. In Malay , it has. "It means dignity and peace."
Philippine Congressman Gary supports the idea of changing the country's name. He pointed out that "many countries have restored their old names after getting rid of the colonial yoke," but the Philippines chose to "keep the name given by the Spanish colonizers." , this is not good. Some older generations of the Philippines are opposed to changing the country's name to "Maharika", alleging that former President Marcos used the name to promote authoritarian ideals when he was in power. According to
data, in 1521, the Portuguese explorer Magellan led the Spanish fleet to "discover" the Philippines, ushering in the era of Spanish colonization of the Philippines. In 1543, the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the islands in the central Philippines Las Islas Filipinas (Las Islas Filipinas) to pay tribute to Philip II, who was still the prince of Spain at the time. . Over the next 300 years, with the expansion of Spanish colonial scope, the name gradually covered the entire Philippine islands. (Overseas Network/Wang Mengtang)
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