Bisayas

British  

/ biˈsajas /

plural noun

1. the Spanish name for the Visayan Islands

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Example Sentences

Albay, Camarines, Samar, Bisayas, and some other districts, are those from which it principally comes.

From Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 by MacMicking, Robert

Their missions in Bohol and northern Mindanao made them ambitious to reserve for the ministrations of their society all lands that were conquered and occupied, south of the Bisayas.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.

Magellan’s death, the natives of Cebu rose and killed the newly elected leader, Serrano, and the fleet in fear lifted its anchors and sailed southward from the Bisayas.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.

He was especially useful in quieting the Indians who were in rebellion in the Bisayas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Following this victory, in the year 1599, the Moros of Jolo and Maguindanao equipped a piratical fleet of fifty caracoas, and swept the coasts of the Bisayas.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.