Bisayas

British  

/ biˈsajas /

plural noun

1. the Spanish name for the Visayan Islands

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Bisayas

Among the Bisayas, there are also some Negroes.

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

He went to that of the Bisayas, which even yet bewails the cost to them of that visit.

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

No part of the Bisayas escaped ravaging in this year, while the Camarines, Batangas, and Albay suffered equally with the rest.

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

He had a fleet of galleys and frigates, and, according to Padre Gaspar de San Augustin, more than fifteen hundred Filipino bowmen from Pangasinan, Cagayan, and the Bisayas accompanied the expedition.

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

Americans had meanwhile occupied Iloilo and the Bisayas, and shortly afterwards the presidios in Mindanao surrendered by the Spaniards.

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