Namayan

This article is about the ancient polity. For the modern barangay, see Namayan, Mandaluyong.

Namayan
ᜈᜋᜌᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)
before 1175–1571
Santa Ana (highlighted in blue) and Pasay (highlighted in green) on a detail of the 1819 map "Plano de la ciudad de Manila, capital de las Yslas Filipinas", prepared by Francisco Xavier de Herrera lo Grabó for the Manila Land Survey Year of 1819. According to Fray. Felix Huerta, the district of Santa Ana was raised in a former territory of the pre-Hispanic polity called Namayan.[1]
Santa Ana (highlighted in blue) and Pasay (highlighted in green) on a detail of the 1819 map "Plano de la ciudad de Manila, capital de las Yslas Filipinas", prepared by Francisco Xavier de Herrera lo Grabó for the Manila Land Survey Year of 1819. According to Fray. Felix Huerta, the district of Santa Ana was raised in a former territory of the pre-Hispanic polity called Namayan.[1]
StatusPrecolonial barangay[2]
under the house[1]
of Lakan Tagkan[2]: 193 
Personal union with Tondo through the traditional lineage of Kalangitan and Bagtas (Legendary antiquity)[3]
CapitalNamayan, Mandaluyong or Maysapan
Common languagesOld Tagalog, Old Malay
GovernmentFeudalism under barangay state led by the house of Lakan Tagkan[1][2][4]
History 
• Established
before 1175
• Conquest by Spain
1571
CurrencyPiloncitos and gold rings[5]
 Succeeded by
Captaincy General of the Philippines
Manila (province)
Today part ofPhilippines
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Namayan (Baybayin: ᜈᜋᜌ or ᜐᜉ (Sapa)), also called Sapa,[6] Maysapan, and sometimes Lamayan,[7] was a Luzonian town[2]: 193 [8][9] that is now the Santa Ana district in Manila city proper along the Pasig River in the Philippines.

Namayan is believed to have achieved its peak in 1175,[10] and to have gone into decline sometime in the 13th century,[11] although it continued to be inhabited until the arrival of European colonizers in the 1570s.[2]

It was one of several towns on the Pasig River alongside Tondo, Manila, and Cainta.[2][3]

Archeological findings in Santa Ana have produced the oldest evidence of continuous habitation among the Pasig River polities, pre-dating artifacts found within the historical sites of Maynila and Tondo.[6][11][Notes 1]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Huerta was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d e f Scott, William Henry (1994). Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. ISBN 971-550-135-4.
  3. ^ a b Odal-Devora, Grace (2000). The River Dwellers, in Book Pasig : The River of Life (Edited by Reynaldo Gamboa Alejandro and Alfred A. Yuson). Unilever Philippines. pp. 43–66.
  4. ^ Joaquin, Nick. Manila My Manila: A History for the Young. City Government of Manila. Manila: 1990.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference OcampoPiloncitos was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b Locsin, Leandro V. and Cecilia Y. Locsin. 1967. Oriental Ceramics Discovered in the Philippines. Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company. ISBN 0804804478
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference traveleronfoot was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Pre-colonial Manila". Malacañang Presidential Museum and Library. Malacañang Presidential Museum and Library Araw ng Maynila Briefers. Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. June 23, 2015. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  9. ^ Abinales, Patricio N. and Donna J. Amoroso, State and Society in the Philippines. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
  10. ^ "About Pasay – History: Kingdom of Namayan". Pasay city government website. City Government of Pasay. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2008.
  11. ^ a b Fox, Robert B. and Avelino M. Legaspi. 1977. Excavations at Santa Ana. Manila: National Museum of the Philippines


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