Federal State of the Visayas Estado Federal de Visayas (Spanish) | |||||||||||||||
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1898–1899 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Autonomous regional government[1] | ||||||||||||||
Capital | Iloilo City | ||||||||||||||
Common languages | Spanish and Visayan | ||||||||||||||
Government | Revolutionary federal state intended as a federated state within a federal republic | ||||||||||||||
President | |||||||||||||||
• 1898–1899 | Roque López | ||||||||||||||
• 1899 | Jovito Yusay | ||||||||||||||
Historical era | Philippine Revolution | ||||||||||||||
• Panay revolt | March 1898 | ||||||||||||||
• Date of Establishment | December 2, 1898 | ||||||||||||||
• Decree abolishing the federal state by Emilio Aguinaldo | April 27, 1899 | ||||||||||||||
• Absorption to the First Philippine Republic | September 23 or October 5, 1899 | ||||||||||||||
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The Federal State of the Visayas (Spanish: Estado Federal de Visayas, Hiligaynon: Pederal nga Estado sang Visayas, Filipino: Pederal na Estado ng Visayas) was a revolutionary state in the Philippine archipelago during the revolutionary period.[2] It was a proposed administrative unit of a Philippines under a federal form of government.