La Perla del Oriente- An Alternate History of the Philippines

La Perla del Oriente- An Alternate History of the Philippines


A Pelayo in the Philippines
On 1500, the Javanese grandsons of Dayang Sasaban, relatives of Girindrawardhana claimed pieces of the former Tondo Confederacy such as Namayan and Kumintang and some principalities and warring against their Bruneian overlords but when will this end, will the Kingdom regain its independence in the future.

On the early part of 1500’s a son of Girindrawardhana of Majapahit would go to the Tondo confederacy and rallied the other descendants of Dayang Sasaban, he introduced himself as Jayadewa.

Jayadewa proclaimed himself the rightful King of the Tagalogs and established a state on the Northeastern Part of Saludang in the area of Faru, Irraya and Laoag where the exiles from Tondo and Majapahit migrated causing the already Javanese influenced language of Faru[1] in this area to become an mix between Javanese and Northern Philippine, the new state established by Jayadewa, Saludang would attract Javanese refugees and the people of the Kingdom of Tondo who are against the Bornean rule, the rulers of Namayan and Kumintang would flee to in order to find support from Jayadewa, this started the Balinese and Javanese migrating to Saludang, the other reason for the migration to Saludang is that Saludang’s mountains have a lot of gold and for that reason, the new state is also known as Gintu.

1. the OTL name of Faru is Aparri, the language mentioned is OTL Ibanag.

Magellan
Heading northwest, the crew reached the equator on 16 February 1521. On 6 March they reached the Marianas and Guam. Pigafetta described the "lateen sail" used by the inhabitants of Guam, hence the name "Island of Sails", but he also writes the inhabitants "entered the ships and stole whatever they could lay their hands on", including "the small boat that was fastened to the poop of the flagship.":129 "Those people are poor, but ingenious and very thievish, on account of which we called those three islands the islands of Ladroni.":131
On 16 March Magellan reached the island of Homonhon in the Philippines, with 150 crew left. Members of his expedition became the first Europeans to reach the Philippine archipelago.
Magellan relied on Enrique, his Malay servant and interpreter, to communicate with the native tribes. He had been indentured by Magellan in 1511 after the colonization of Malacca, and had accompanied him through later adventures.

Rajah Humabon of Cebu was friendly towards Magellan and the Spaniards; both he and his queen Hara Amihan were baptized as Christians and were given the image of the Holy Child (later known as Santo Niño de Cebu) which along with a cross (Magellan's Cross) symbolizes the Christianization of the Philippines. Afterward, Rajah Humabon and his ally Datu Zula convinced Magellan to kill their enemy, Datu Lapu-Lapu, on Mactan. Magellan wanted to convert Lapu-Lapu to Christianity, as he had Humabon, but Lapu-Lapu rejected that. On the morning of mid 1521, Magellan sailed to Mactan with a small attack force. During the resulting battle against Lapu-Lapu's troops, Magellan was struck by a bamboo spear, and later surrounded and finished off with other weapons.

Magellan provided in his will that Enrique, his interpreter, was to be freed upon his death. But after the battle, the remaining ships' masters refused to free the Malay. Enrique escaped his indenture on 1 May with the aid of Rajah Humabon, amid the deaths of almost 30 crewmen.

Pigafetta had been jotting down words in both Butuanon and Cebuano languages – which he started at Mazaua on 29 March and his list grew to a total of 145 words. He continued communications with indigenous peoples during the rest of the voyage.

Before the Conquests of the Spanish
After the visit of Magellan and the establishment of the Kingdom of Ginto, the Javanese refugees would remain migrating to Saludang in the Kayan River Valley[1] and the Tagarug[2] river valley, the Tagarug River Valley has an unclear suzerainty because the Pagans side with the Gintu Kingdom and the Muslims side with the Puppet Tondo Kingdom which is suzerain to Brunei, the two river valleys settled by Javanese, Malay and Balinese Hindus, Buddhists and Pagans as well as affected by wars in Javanese and Chams from Vietnam which mingle with the natives creating a new language that is Mix between the dialects that are already influenced by Javanese and Javanese itself making a mixed Northern Philippine and Javanese creole.

The Chinese called the new Kingdom of Ginto or the new Tagalog Kingdom established by Jayadewa as the Kingdom of Baipuyan.

For the Mindanao Island, most of it would be under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Maguindanao or rather the Sultanate of Maguindanao which is de jure a confederacy like the Kingdom of Tondo but would evolve as a Kingdom of its own right when the Spanish conquer the Island, the Sultanate of Maguindanao would receive some Javanese refugees as well but it is a smaller population.

Both the Kingdoms of Gintu and Maguindanao(Iranun) will evolve from confederacy to actual kingdoms tested by the Spanish colonization in the archipelago.

For Visayas, it would remain in a fragmented state under the loosely held states which are Madya-as and Cebu and the other parts remain ruled by chieftains who ruled tribes.

1. OTL Cagayan River
2.OTL Pampanga River

note:
The languages, Ibanag, Irraya, Malaweg, Itawis, Kapampangan and Tagarug will be absorbed by the new Javanese-Northern Philippine creole in its formation but some words from these languages such as Pronouns will remain in use in the region were the languages were spoken, their substrata makes them different dialects, Ilocano, Gaddang, Yogad, Isneg, Sambal, Pangasinan/Kaboloan and the Cordilleran languages such as Ifugao will escape the absorption from the creole.


Conquistas de Filipinas - Cebu

In early 1564, Velasco commissioned Miguel López de Legazpi and Andrés de Urdaneta to lead an expedition across the Pacific to the Spice Islands, where Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed in 1521 and 1543, before the expedition was made Miguel Lopez de Legaspi would die before the expedition even started and replaced by his grandson Felipe de Salcedo.

On November 19 or 20, 1564, five ships and 500 soldiers, sailed from the port of Barra de Navidad, New Spain, in what is now Jalisco state, Mexico (other sources give the date as November 1, 1564, and mention 'four ships and 380 men').[citation needed] Members of the expedition included six Augustinian missionaries, in addition to Fr. Andrés de Urdaneta, who served as navigator and spiritual adviser, Melchor de Legazpi (son of Adelanto de Legazpi), Felipe de Salcedo (grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi), and Guido de Lavezarez (a survivor of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan).

Felipe de Salcedo and his men sailed the Pacific Ocean for 93 days. In 1565, they landed in the Mariana Islands, where they briefly anchored and replenished their supplies. There they fought with Chamorro tribes and burned several huts.

Felipe de Salcedo's expedition anchored off the Indianized Rajahnate of Cebu on February 13, 1565, but did not put ashore due to opposition from natives.

On February 22, 1565 the expedition reached the island of Samar and made a blood compact with Datu Urrao. The Spaniards then proceeded to Limasawa and were received by Datu Bankaw, then to Bohol, where they befriended Datu Sikatuna and Rajah Sigala. On March 16, Legazpi made a blood compact with Datu Sikatuna.

On April 27, 1565, the expedition returned to Cebu and landed there. Rajah Tupas challenged the Spaniards, but were overpowered by them. The Spaniards established a colony, naming the settlements "Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesús" (Town of the Most Holy Name of Jesus) after an image of Sto. Niño in one of the native houses.

They called the new colony as the land called as Filipinas which is initially centered in Cebu, they would move to find a more nicer location for the capital of the colony.

Conquistas de Filipinas - Manila
After the Spanish had already pacified the whole of Visayas, they have heard of a rich land in the north that could be the center of the colony.

Panay and the Coasts of Mindoro were easy to gain and Lubang has been attacked by the Spanish

On 1570, the Spanish led by Salcedo had pacified the Coasts of Mindoro and pushed forward to the southern part of the Kingdom of Tondo and gone to Manila and Tondo which is its capital, Lakandula sided with the Spanish against Soliman, his nephew and defeated his nephew and his coalition, the people of Lakandula that sided with the Spanish became the Spanish subjects, the Pagans had been under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Ginto or the Kingdom of Saludang or the Kingdom of the Tagalogs established by Jayadewa.

The Spanish conversions of the Pagan people in Saludan or Saludang has been mostly a failure except for the coast of Manila bay and Kumintang and Ibalon[1] Coast, the area in South of the Pasig river has been controlled by the Spanish and the Area of Manila bay and a lot of the population South of Pasig river that is Pagan either fled north or Fled to the Mountains, the Bataan region would be under the Spanish where the population is not that big, the remnant population in the Spanish occupied parts that has not fled would be Christianized or remain in the mountains retaining their old religion, the ones that stayed would be assimilated by the new settlers that were sent by the Spanish.

Due to what happened in the South of Saludang and in Bataan, the plains south of Saludang would be Visayan and Chavacano speaking and after the conquest of Bataan, the control of the Spanish in Bataan would be reduced to just the coastal town of Mariveles and Coregidor.

1. Bikol



Consolidation of Las Islas Filipinas
The Spanish would be distributing lands in the Philippines as encomiendas.

On 1600, the Colonization of the Philippines and the Proselytization of Catholicism started but the Prosetylization efforts in the Lower Tagarug river valley fail, on the upper part of the Tagarug River Valley, Sambali and Kaboloan which is the Agno basin and Samtoy have been secured by the Kingdom of Gintu, but Bataan and the urban part of Buracan and Tundun province would fall under the Spanish rule but since the people of Bataan did not accept any of the rule of the Spanish, the Spanish only would retain Mariveles and Coregidor on 1610, the Spanish would retain only the Tundun province and the city of Mariveles and Coregidor as Spanish territories in the North of Pasig river, many of the population of southern part of Saludang would flee to the Northern part of Saludang and into the mountains due to them refusing the Spanish reducciones, due to this the Spanish would settle the parts emptied by these people by Visayans and some people from the Merdicas which would introduce Chavacano in the southern part of Saludang, the city of Balayan would be renamed as Cantabria.

The Spanish hold in Visayas and Butuan would strengthen but the Spanish would fail also in most of Mindanao like in Saludan.

The Spanish experienced some revolts in Visayas which were quelled when they were consolidating the north, so the Spanish decided to give up trying to put the capital of Las Islas Filipinas in Saludang and put the capital in Cebu where the Spanish first landed and made Manila a simple trading city which would be more richer in the Acapulco-Leon-Manila trade which will give American gold to the Chinese coffers and Chinese goods to the Europeans, but the gold will not be enough to cause an inflation in China, the City of Cebu would be renamed as the City of Nueva Leon because one of the settlements in Cebu used to be called as Singhapala, Visayas on the Spanish documents would be called as Nueva Leon, Spanish Saludang would be called as Nueva Castilla and Spanish Mindanao would be called as Nueva Aragon.

Due to what happened to Saludan, the languages of Ibalon and Kumintang would be moribund nowadays and are being phased out in favor of Chavacano de Saludan.

note:

I am planning for both Ilocano and Tagalog to go moribund or minoricized in this TL, these languages are known as Samtoy and Kumintang in this TL..so just wait and see
 
Homogenization in Saludang
For the People of the Philippines colony, the country became a catholic homogeneous place in a matter of decades, the main reason why the people of Saludan fled the part occupied by the Spanish because the Spanish rule threatened their way of life and a part of their people already resisted successfully.

95% percent of the original people of Saludang have already compressed to the Northern part of Saludang and those immigrants would not preserve their original languages,their original languages would go Moribund or minoricized in the occupied areas

Another detail in Saludang or rather in the Tagalog Kingdom or Gintu is that the Samtoy linguistic domain’s border is pushed further north[1] but it does not end there because Vigan is settled by the Javanese and people from the Saludangese plains which will later be absorbed to the Saludangese language, the process of consolidation between the langauges that made the Saludangese language will finish in the late 17th century.



1. the Linguistic border between Kaboloan and Samtoy(OTL Ilocandia) becomes at the OTL La Union - Ilocos border.


Swapping of Brides and survival of the Valois
The French would prevent and save the English Catholic Church by Swapping Madeleine of France as a bride for Henry VIII and Mary of England as the bride of Francis I on 1535 just after the death of Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon, she would produce spare lines for the Valois.

Francis, duke of Brittany would die before he would reign, however Joanna Albret of Navarre would marry Charles duke of Orleans, which would led him to the throne of Navarre.

All of the sons of Henry II of France did not have issues but their daughters have, his sons died one by one during his reign except for one and that is Henry III which died a year after his father died and due to that the King of Navarre, Charles, Duke of Orleans would be the King of France and aside from that he did have a lot of sons from Joanna Albret of Navarre, which she said was her own duty and one of the sons of Charles Valois of France and Navarre was Henry IV.

so we have a Valois France and Navarre in this TL not a Bourbon one
 
The Integration of the Portuguese Empire

On the death of King Sebastian of Portugal, Portugal and its Empire was in a succession crisis so Portugal went under Spain on the rule of the Sword and thus Portugal was integrated to the Spanish Empire and so does its colonies in Indonesia such as Nusa Tengarra, Malacca and parts of Java and due to this the Spanish prioritized their spice trade, the Spanish treated the area of Saludang and Mindanao that they conquered as marches as part of the colony and preferred the Spice filled Maluku.

The Javanese islamic sultanates would have a frenzy against the Pagans in Bali and Java prompting a lot of refugees to the Kingdom of Gintu.

The Spanish would destroy the Sultanates of Ternate and Celebes due to the decaying status of the two sultanates and the Spanish would prove to be strong, a part of the Merdicas population would be settled in the Spanish occupied Saludang in order to guard against the people from the Kingdom of Gintu reclaiming the Spanish occupied part.

The Philippines would be divided into four provinces, Visayas is called as Nueva Canarias
or New Canaries divided in eastern and western parts the Spanish held Saludang and Mindanao would be called as Marca Tagalica and Marca Iranunica.

The people of the Philippines were taught to hate the Tagalogs/Tinguians of Guintu and the Iranuns of Maguindanao Sultanate

Note:
In this TL the Portuguese would influence the Badajoz and Seville more causing the OTL Castillan standard language to be seen as a dialect.
 
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Japanese - Spanish war
The marriage between the sister of King of the Tinguians(Gintu) or the King of the Tagalogs and the Japanese shogun would strengthen the alliance between the empire of Japan and Gintu against the Spanish that occupied the south of their lands, the Japanese were already defeated in the war of Imjin and the Tinguians were wanting the spanish occupied Saludang to return to their fold.
 

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Banned
I'm going to assume the Aeta or any other Negrito group in no part play any real roles in this OT or am I wrong?
 
I'm going to assume the Aeta or any other Negrito group in no part play any real roles in this OT or am I wrong?

The wild tribes are another problem - but the three igorot tribes, namely, Apayao, Ifugao and Ibaloi are considered mainstream in Gintu in this TL, the Kankanaey, Bontok and other cordillerans will be a troublesome minority, the Aetas will be absorbed by the Remontados in the Spanish occupied part and the Aetas will just be More or less untouched in Gintu but they will have a better treatment compared to OTL.
 
Japanese - Spanish war
The marriage between the sister of King of the Tinguians(Gintu), Jayadewa II or the King of the Tagalogs and the Japanese shogun would strengthen the alliance between the empire of Japan and Gintu against the Spanish that occupied the south of their lands, the Japanese were already defeated in the war of Imjin and the Tinguians were wanting the spanish occupied Saludang to return to their fold.

The war between the Spanish and Japanese for the Kingdom of Gintu to regain the Tagalog marches from the Spanish lasted for months but it was a disaster for them and the bandits from Gintu would remain raiding settlements in the Tagalog march forcing the Spanish to abandon the Northern part of the Tondo province and the Northern Shores of Pulian Kasumuran, now the border has been defined in the Pasig River and the Northern shores of Pulilan Kasumuran or La Laguna would be a no mans land after the Spanish retreated from that part.

Gintu would be known as the Tagalog/Tinguian Kingdom and also a Neo Majapahit State due to the Spanish knowing about its real origins.

In the same time the Mindanao Kingdom specifically its main constituent state, the Maguindanao Sultanate made raids against the Spanish occupied Mindanao under the rule of Sultan Ahmad and his son Sultan Kudarat.
 
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Ethnographic Situation of the Philippines and the world
the Languages - Ibanag, Itawis, Kapampangan, Yogad, Tagarug, Irraya and Malaweg are absorbed by the new Javanese-Northern Philippine creole retaining few differences such as pronouns, the language is called as Saludangese, Iginto, Ginintu or Tagalog

The languages Kaboloan[1], Sambal, Gaddang, Apayao, Ifugao and Isinay avoid the merger but become very much influenced by the new language.

The Kalinga, Itneg, Balangao,Bontok , Kankanaey and Bugkalot would remain as head hunters and treated not as a part of the Mainstream Gintu society, the same will be for the Aetas but they will not be touched, the Ifugao area was chosen by the ruler of Gintu as the seat of Government and Court.

A Similar thing will happen in Mindanao, the languages Maguindanao and Maranao merge to form the Common Iranun language, aside from the Iranun people living in Mindanao, the Wild Visayans[3] and Negritos would also live in the Mindanaoan Kingdom.

In the Spanish occupied Saludang the people who did not flee or convert just fled to the mountains absorbing the Agta groups in that area, the same would happen in Mindanao.

Saludangese and Mindanaoans don’t convert to christianity in the occupied areas but the ones that did need to assimilate to the mainstream society and not retain their original language and identity[4]

The Poland-Lithuania would be Protestant after the extinction of the Jagiellonians to the Vasa Dynasty which are protestant causing a large population of the Poles to migrate to Silesia, Silesia would be the bastion of Polish Catholicism since it is the only remaining area of the Polish Primacy that would remain catholic.

1.OTL Pangasinic which is composed of Pangasinan, Ibaloi and related closely languages.
2. Speakers of South Mindanao and Mindanaoan languages
3. OTL Mansakans.
4.this is what happened to Mindanao in OTL, the people that convert don’t retain their original identity and language, which made the indigenous people of Mindanao the minority in their homeland and the Spanish and Americans imported settlers in those lands in this TL, resettlement by the Spanish by Visayans and Creole speakers will be done in the Tagalog and Iranun Marches.
 
There are only 3-5 remaining chapters in this TL, since I am planning this TL to be textbook like the last chapter will deal with the ATL Great war and the situation in the present day.

I promise that my next TL will be novel like or to have a slower pace.
 
The Burden and that is the Philippines

It was said to the King of Spain, Charles III of Spain just before his death that the Philippines was a pain in the ass to rule and the Spanish need to give up its claims to the lands and just abandon the colony.

The King said to that man, that the Spanish still have to spread christianity that is their mission there.

But on 1660, the Spanish were able to conquer Palawan from Brunei but were yet to convert the population into christianity, that is the situation that happened.

On the ascension of Francis I of the Valois dynasty in the Spanish throne after the war of succession, things started to change in the Philippines and missionaries were also found in Borneo as well but the Kingdoms of Gintu and Maguindanao were against Christianity till the Protestant missionaries arrived.
 
This is basically a guide to what is happening to the new Kingdoms, so it is not an update

Kingdom of Gintu
Court Language: Javanese, defacto Ginintu
Religion: Hindu-Buddhist, Pagan

It also calls itself as the Tagalog Kingdom and also claims to be the successor of Majapahit, the Japanese would derive minerals from Gintu, since the earlier alliance.

The Kingdom of Gintu has ties with both Johor and Japan, the wild tribes in the Mountains are considered the internal irritant.

Kingdom of Mindanao
Court Language: Malay, Defacto Iranun
Religion: Islam, Pagan

It calls itself as the Iranun Kingdom, it is composed of many sultanates and the ruling Sultanate is the Sultanate of Maguindanao, the Kingdom is also as tightly united as the Kingdom of Gintu although it is demure a congrolemate.

Sultanate of Sulu

Court Language: Malay, Defacto Iranun
Religion: Islam
Besides the fact of being small, it is guaranteed of independence by the Kingdom of Mindanao.

Spanish East Indies
Court Language: Spanish
Religion: Catholicism

The main indigenous language in the Spanish East Indies is the loosely united Visayan language, since the time of the acquisition of the Portuguese East Indies, it has not been the priority of the Spanish who rule it because of the messy situation of the archipelago.
 
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A Lutheran Church in Gintu

The arrival of Protestantism

The two Kingdoms of Gintu and Maguindanao had accepted the protestant missionaries from Germany, there were Lutheran missionaries that arrived in Gintu and Maguindanao in the late 17th century, the protestants never became a majority in the two Kingdoms and became a tolerated minority.

The people of Gintu became known as Majapahitans to the people in the Spanish ruled Philippines due to Gintu being ruled by a Neo-Majapahit dynasty.

In Visayas the dialect of Negros became the standard Visayan, a mix of Hiligaynon and Sugbuanon,
 
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