Iligan

British  

/ ɪˈliːɡən /

noun

1. a city in the Philippines, a port on the N coast of Mindanao. Pop: 306 000 (2005 est)

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Iligan

Baluyut and Leano’s group has since expanded to include chapters in Tacloban, Davao, Surigao del Sur, Iligan, Zamboanga and the couple’s base in Los Baños, roughly 30 miles south of Manila.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

So Mr Dupont went undercover and infiltrated a group based in Iligan in the south of the Philippines.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2019

While the battle dragged on, his wife and their six children — ages 12, 10, 7, 6, 2 and 10 months — were in a safe house in nearby Iligan City.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2017

Abdulgani Ali, who owns shops in Marawi and nearby Iligan City, said there is less resentment of Christian neighbors than there is of the government for neglecting Muslim livelihoods.

From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2017

The village of Iligan, which is the capital of the jurisdiction, where the alcalde-mayor and the infantry captain of the presidio live, has about 100 tributes along the coast.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 Edward Gaylord Bourne

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