Srivijyan Prince flee to the Visayas

About seven months ago I made a thread about a Sinicized Philippines.

My interested about an althist Philippines peaked once more with this idea.

After the fall of the Sri Vijayan Empire, several princes tried to reestablish the empire. One of the princes founded the Kingdom of Singapura and when it fell, the Malacca Sultanate was established by Paduka Sri Maharaja Parameswara who fled Singapura after a Majapahit invasion on 1398. (Source came from wikipedia so please correct me if I'm wrong. Srivijaya.)

By ten, their was already a Srivijayan colony in the Philippines located in the Visayas known as the Confederation of Madja-as.

Their is also the Rajahnate of Cebu to.

So lets say one princes escapes to the Confederation and becomes a Datu and later on in the beginning of the 1400s expands throughout the Central Philippines. putting them under the Confederation. It grows strong enough later to field its own Navy and Army and also trades extensively with SEA, China, and Japan.

Will Spain still try to conquer the Philippines?

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Decided to put this out because it was on my mind today. If any of you guys want to adopt this timeline, go ahead.

What I'm hoping for is a interesting discussion about this. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_of_Madja-as#Origin
 
That would depend on how well he managed relations with the Europeans and the other neighbouring states. As easy as it would have been to imagine a massive fleet sailing from Seville to Cebu, the Spanish was not omnipotent and didn't have that much manpower available in South East Asia. Same goes for the other Europeans, the Portuguese and the Dutch.

However, they can play on rival sultanates against each other, and weren't above using underhand tactics to get what they want (like how the Portuguese suckered Malacca into giving them land to build a 'trading post', completely armed to the teeth with cannons and protected by stronk walls). As long as the Spanish don't put his realm's value as a colony above its value as a trade partner, he'll live.

Unfortunately, that, AFAIK, would be hard, given that the Phillipines was colonized.
 
About seven months ago I made a thread about a Sinicized Philippines.

My interested about an althist Philippines peaked once more with this idea.

After the fall of the Sri Vijayan Empire, several princes tried to reestablish the empire. One of the princes founded the Kingdom of Singapura and when it fell, the Malacca Sultanate was established by Paduka Sri Maharaja Parameswara who fled Singapura after a Majapahit invasion on 1398. (Source came from wikipedia so please correct me if I'm wrong. Srivijaya.)

By ten, their was already a Srivijayan colony in the Philippines located in the Visayas known as the Confederation of Madja-as.

Their is also the Rajahnate of Cebu to.

So lets say one princes escapes to the Confederation and becomes a Datu and later on in the beginning of the 1400s expands throughout the Central Philippines. putting them under the Confederation. It grows strong enough later to field its own Navy and Army and also trades extensively with SEA, China, and Japan.

Will Spain still try to conquer the Philippines?

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Decided to put this out because it was on my mind today. If any of you guys want to adopt this timeline, go ahead.

What I'm hoping for is a interesting discussion about this. :)
More likely the Sri Vijayan Royalty will flee to Tondo not Visayas since tthe Tondo royalty are from Sri Vijaya.

The Cebu Rajahnate is founded by a Cadet lineage of the Dynasty of Chola.
 
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