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Terraces and Pagodas
Terraces and Pagodas

When Miguel Lopez de Legaspi came to Manila Bay in May 1571, Lakandula was there to meet him,. The two first met on May 17, the day after Legazpi’s arrival on the bay, when Lakandula and Matanda came aboard Legazpi’s ship to discuss terms with him. Part of these discussions specified that ground the year before. Burned down and emptied, Maynila would be a better occupied spot to fortify, being more strategic. In fact Manila was not conquered, but it was occupied through a peace pact that joined Legaspi and the three ruluer, Lakandula, Ache and Sulayman..

On May 18, 1571, Rajah Sulayman, Rajah Matanda and Lakan Dula acknowledged the Spanish suzerainty on their islands themselves. On the following day March 19, Legaspi landed in Manila and took the ceremonial possessions of the land in the prescence of Sulayman, Matanda and Lakandula.

On 1574, Limahong would be defeated on his battle fleeing north and decides to stay in Caboloan in the North of the lands that the Spanish rule welcomed by Tarik and underling Kasikis of Caboloan who would promise him the rule of Manila, Limahong would be given armies by the Nobility of the lands not conquered by Bolkiahs to his own rule.

Limahong would attack Manila again on 1576 and armed by soldiers from Saludong and it would result in a failure again on the side of Saludong and the Spanish would ignore Saludong afterwards although the Spanish would rule Ilocos and Bulacan and they would not help the kin of Kandarapa in the rebellion on 1589.

After Tarik and Kasikis, they would be succeeded by another ruler named Balagtas I on 1620, the son of Dayang Kandarapa and Tarik of Macabebe, however Balagtas would enter on trade treaties with Portugal.

The wife of Tarik, Kandarapa had a brief romance with the grandchild of Conquistador Legaspi, Salcedo which her relatives would be against and for that reason her son, Balagtas I in 1630, the ruler of Saludong would make her the negotiator to the Spanish but she would not be able to see her lover again.

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