Tag: Philippines

Philippines: Holidays, Events, and National Customs Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which…

HISTORY: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1521 Formerly inhabited since the Palaeolithic era by almost certainly indigenous peoples, the islands that now form the Philippine archipelago were repeatedly invaded by populations from Malaysia and Indonesia (from the 2nd to the 15th century AD). Unlike Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia, according to Softwareleverage, the Philippines…

According to localtimezone, the population of the Philippines took place due to successive contributions: they caused deep mixing along the coasts, but they often left areas of ethnic and linguistic fossilization in the forest interior. This discriminatory process is responsible for the presence of the Aeta, pygmies negritos, still very primitive tribes, who live in…

The Philippines is Asia’s only predominantly Catholic nation, and it was here that the continent’s first democracy was established. It happened in 1946. Since the Philippines was once ruled by foreigners, first by Spaniards and then by Americans, their laws and culture express a tangle of influences. English, for example, is one of the country’s…