Bisayas

British  

/ biˈsajas /

plural noun

1. the Spanish name for the Visayan Islands

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Example Sentences

Not a year had passed, since its abandonment years before, that the pirates from Borneo and Mindanao had failed to ravage the Bisayas.

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

However, father Fray Francisco Bonifacio remained as prior of Tondo; although he had wished to go to Bisayas, the sea so frightened him that he was very fortunate to remain.

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

Bisayas, the, 221 Bisharin, the, 483 sq., and Pl.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

The Spaniards were driven from Jolo, and the fleets of the Moros again ravaged the Bisayas.

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

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.