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Marikina

Index Marikina

Marikina (Lungsod ng Marikina) is one of the cities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. [1]

196 relations: Alaminos, Pangasinan, Alcalde, Alcalde-Presidente, Andrés Bonifacio, Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Marikina, Antipolo, Area, Armscor (Philippines), Ateneo de Manila University, Augustinians, Ayala Malls Feliz, Ayala Malls Marikina, Bacolod, Baptists, Barangay, Barangka, Barrio, Bayani Fernando, Biscay, Blue Wave-Marikina, Brampton, Buddhism in the Philippines, Bus, Busan, Cainta, Calumpang, Marikina, Canada, Catholic Church, Cemetery, Charter city, Circumferential Road 5, Cities of the Philippines, Commercial area, Commonwealth of the Philippines, Decree, Del de Guzman, Department of Education (Philippines), Department of the Interior and Local Government, Deputy mayor, Dominican Order, Dry goods, DZBF, Earthquake, Emilio Aguinaldo, Empire of Japan, English language, Félix Berenguer de Marquina, Fidel Ramos, Filipino language, Franciscans, ..., Geoscience Australia, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Governor-General of the Philippines, Hacienda, Hectare, Hinduism in the Philippines, History of the Philippines (1521–1898), House of Representatives of the Philippines, Humidity, Iglesia ni Cristo, Iloilo, Iloilo City, Imelda Marcos, Immaculate Conception, Imperial Japanese Army, Independence, Industrial park, Informatics, Institution, Islam in the Philippines, Jeepney, Jesús dela Peña Chapel, Jesus Miracle Crusade, Jose Fabian Cadiz, Kapitan Moy Residence, Katipunan, Lakandula, Lea-Artibai, League of Barangays in the Philippines, Legislative districts of Marikina, Legislature, Liberal Party (Philippines), List of Philippine laws, List of Philippine provinces by population, List of renamed cities and municipalities of the Philippines, List of ZIP codes in the Philippines, Luzon, Majorat, Manila, Manila (province), Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2, Marcelino Teodoro, Marides Fernando, Marikina, Marikina Heights, Marikina Polytechnic College, Marikina River, Marikina River Park, Marikina Science High School, Marikina Sports Center, Marikina Valley Fault System, Marikina–Infanta Highway, Marist School (Marikina), Markina-Xemein, Mayor, Members Church of God International, Menudo (stew), Metro Manila, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Miro Quimbo, Mixed-use development, Monsoon, Montalbán, Mother of Divine Providence School, National Capital Region Police Office, National Christian Life College, National Historical Commission of the Philippines, Nationalist People's Coalition, Negros Occidental, Noritake, Our Lady of Perpetual Succor College, Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish Church (Marikina), Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina, Pangasinan, Parks and Recreation, Pasig, Patron saint, PDP–Laban, Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch), Philip Morris International, Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Independent Church, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Philippine National Police, Philippine National Railways, Philippine Revolution, Philippine Standard Time, Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippines, Pickled cucumber, PMFTC, Poblacion, Population density, President, President of the Philippines, Pueblo, Quezon, Quezon City, Recto LRT station, Residential area, Riverbanks Center, Rizal, Road, Robinsons Metro East, Rodolfo B. Valentino, Rodriguez, Rizal, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila, Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo, Roosevelt College Marikina, San Mateo, Rizal, Sangguniang Panlungsod, Santa Elena, Marikina, Santolan LRT station, Sapang Baho River, Schurman Commission, Seal (emblem), Seventh-day Adventist Church, Shoemaking, Sierra Madre (Philippines), SM City Marikina, Small and medium-sized enterprises, Society of Jesus, South Korea, Spain, Spaniards, St. Scholastica's Academy of Marikina, Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall, STI College, Sumulong Highway, Tagalog language, Tagalog people, Taxicab, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Telephone numbers in the Philippines, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tondo (historical polity), Town, Tricycle, Tropical monsoon climate, Typhoon Ketsana, Typhoon Ruby (1988), United States, Wet market, World War II, Xyza Diazen, 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods. Expand index (146 more) »

Alaminos, Pangasinan

, officially the, (name; name; name), is a city in the province of,, and is known for being the home of the Hundred Islands National Park, which is composed of 124 islands and is located off the coast of Barangay Lucap.

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Alcalde

Alcalde, or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Alcalde-Presidente

An Alcalde-Presidente is an Alcalde (Spanish for municipal Mayor) who also functions as President(e) of a higher administrative level.

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Andrés Bonifacio

Andrés Bonifacio (November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino revolutionary leader and the president of the Tagalog Republic.

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Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Marikina

Andres Bonifacio Avenue, also known by its short form A. Bonifacio Avenue, is a 4-lane highway in Marikina that connects Aurora Boulevard in Quezon City to the west and Sumulong Highway in Marikina to the east.

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Antipolo

, officially the, (name), or simply known as City, is a settlement_text and the capital of the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Area

Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane.

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Armscor (Philippines)

The Arms Corporation of the Philippines (Armscor) is a firearms manufacturing company headquartered in the Philippines.

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Ateneo de Manila University

The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila; Spanish: Universidad Ateneo de Manila) is a private research university in Quezon City, Philippines.

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Augustinians

The term Augustinians, named after Augustine of Hippo (354–430), applies to two distinct types of Catholic religious orders, dating back to the first millennium but formally created in the 13th century, and some Anglican religious orders, created in the 19th century, though technically there is no "Order of St.

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Ayala Malls Feliz

Ayala Malls Feliz (also known as Feliz Town Center) is a shopping mall developed and managed by Ayala Malls.

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Ayala Malls Marikina

Ayala Malls Marikina (also known as Ayala Malls Marikina Heights/Ayala Malls Arvo) is a shopping mall developed and managed by Ayala Malls.

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Bacolod

, officially (Dakbanwa/Syudad sang Bacolod; Lungsod ng Bacolod) and often referred to as Bacolod City, is a highly urbanized city in the Philippines.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Barangay

A barangay ((abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), formerly referred to as barrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. In metropolitan areas, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The word barangay originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines. Municipalities and cities in the Philippines are subdivided into barangays, with the exception of the municipalities of Adams in Ilocos Norte and Kalayaan, Palawan which each contain only one barangay. The barangay itself is sometimes informally subdivided into smaller areas called purok (English: "zone"), barangay zones consisting of a cluster of houses, and sitios, which are territorial enclaves—usually rural—far from the barangay center., there were 42,029 barangays throughout the Philippines.

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Barangka

Barangka is one of sixteen barangays in Marikina, Philippines and one of the barangays in 1st District of Marikina.

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Barrio

Barrio is a Spanish word meaning neighborhood.

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Bayani Fernando

Bayani Flores Fernando (born July 25, 1946) is a former Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

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Biscay

Biscay (Bizkaia; Vizcaya) is a province of Spain located just south of the Bay of Biscay.

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Blue Wave-Marikina

Blue Wave-Marikina, also known as Blue Wave at Marquinton, is a mall and office complex in Marikina, Philippines developed by Federal Land, Inc..

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Brampton

Brampton is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Buddhism in the Philippines

Buddhism is a minor religion in the Philippines. Loanwords with Buddhist context appear in languages of the Philippines.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Busan

Busan, formerly known as Pusan and now officially is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants.

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Cainta

, officially the, (name), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Calumpang, Marikina

Calumpang (also spelled Kalumpang) is one of the barangays of Marikina City.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Charter city

In the United States, a charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than by general law.

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Circumferential Road 5

Circumferential Road 5, more commonly known as C-5 Road or C-5, is a network of roads and bridges that altogether forms a major route that transverses in Metro Manila, in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

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Cities of the Philippines

A city is one of the units of local government in the Philippines.

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Commercial area

Commercial areas in a city are areas, districts, or neighbourhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", commercial strip, or shopping centre.

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Commonwealth of the Philippines

The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Commonwealth de Filipinas; Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was the administrative body that governed the Philippines from 1935 to 1946, aside from a period of exile in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 when Japan occupied the country.

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Decree

A decree is a rule of law usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution).

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Del de Guzman

Del Reyes De Guzman (born January 9, 1963) is a Filipino politician.

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Department of Education (Philippines)

The Department of Education (abbreviated as DepEd; Kagawaran ng Edukasyon) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to, promoting equity in, and improving the quality of basic education.

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Department of the Interior and Local Government

The Philippine Department of the Interior and Local Government (Kagawaran ng Interyor at Pamahalaang Lokal), abbreviated as DILG, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for promoting peace and order, ensuring public safety and strengthening local government capability aimed towards the effective delivery of basic services to the citizenry.

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Deputy mayor

Deputy mayor is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official in many local governments.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Dry goods

Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region.

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DZBF

DZBF (1674 kHz Metro Manila) Radyo Marikina is a low-power AM station of the Marikina City Government, as part of its Public Information Office.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and military leader who is officially recognized as the first and the youngest President of the Philippines (1899–1901) and first president of a constitutional republic in Asia.

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Empire of Japan

The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Félix Berenguer de Marquina

Félix Ignacio Juan Nicolás Antonio José Joaquín Buenaventura Berenguer de Marquina y FitzGerald (November 20, 1733 – October 30, 1826) was a Spanish naval officer, colonial official and, from April 30, 1800 to January 4, 1803, viceroy of New Spain.

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Fidel Ramos

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Filipino language

Filipino (Wikang Filipino), in this usage, refers to the national language (Wikang pambansa/Pambansang wika) of the Philippines.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is an agency of the Australian Government.

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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino professor and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 until 2010, as the 10th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, as the deputy speaker of the 17th Congress and a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga since 2010.

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Governor-General of the Philippines

The Governor-General of the Philippines (Spanish: Gobernador-General de Filipinas; Filipino: Gobernador-Heneral ng Pilipinas; Japanese) was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed mainly by Spain (1565–1898) and the United States (1898–1946), and briefly by Great Britain (1762–1764) and Japan (1942–1945).

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Hacienda

An hacienda (or; or), in the colonies of the Spanish Empire, is an estate, similar in form to a Roman villa.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Hinduism in the Philippines

Hinduism has a long historical influence in the Philippines, but recent archaeological and other evidence suggests Hinduism has had some cultural, economic, political and religious influence in the archipelago.

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History of the Philippines (1521–1898)

The history of the Philippines from 1521 to 1898, also known as the Spanish colonial period, a period that spans during the Captaincy General of the Philippines located in the collection of Islands in Southeast Asia that was colonized by Spain known as 'Las Islas Filipinas', once under New Spain until Mexican independence which gave Madrid direct control over the area.

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House of Representatives of the Philippines

The House of Representatives of the Philippines (Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ng Pilipinas), is the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines.

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Humidity

Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.

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Iglesia ni Cristo

Iglesia ni Cristo (abbreviated as INC English: Church of Christ) is an international church that originated in the Philippines.

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Iloilo

Iloilo (Kapuoran sang Iloilo; Kapuoran kang Iloilo; Lalawigan ng Iloilo) is a province located in the region of Western Visayas in the Philippines.

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Iloilo City

Iloilo City, officially the City of Iloilo (Dakbanwa/Syudad sang Iloilo; Syudad kang/ka Iloilo; Lungsod ng Iloilo; Ciudad de Iloílo) is a highly urbanized city on the southeastern tip of Panay island in the Philippines.

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Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos (née Romuáldez, born 2 July 1929) is the widow of Ferdinand Marcos, the 10th president of the Philippines.

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Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary free from original sin by virtue of the merits of her son Jesus Christ.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.

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Independence

Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory.

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Industrial park

An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.

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Informatics

Informatics is a branch of information engineering.

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Institution

Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior".

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Islam in the Philippines

Islam is the oldest recorded monotheistic religion in the Philippines.

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Jeepney

Jeepneys (Filipino: Dyipni), sometimes called simply jeeps (Filipino: dyip), are the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines.

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Jesús dela Peña Chapel

Jesús de la Peña Chapel or San Isidro Labrador Church is a historic visita in Marikina where the first Catholic Mass was held.

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Jesus Miracle Crusade

The Jesus Miracle Crusade International Ministry (acronym as JMCIM) is an Apostolic Pentecostal religious group in the Philippines which believes particularly in the promotion of miracles and faith in God for healing.

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Jose Fabian Cadiz

José Fabian Cádiz (born January 11, 1961) is a Filipino politician and doctor who is the current Vice Mayor of Marikina, one of the 16 cities of Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Kapitan Moy Residence

Kapitan Moy Building, situated in Marikina, Metro Manila, the Philippines, is the 200-year-old house of Don Laureano Guevarra (4 July 1851 – 30 December 1891), known as the founder of the Marikina shoe industry.

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Katipunan

The Katipunan (usually abbreviated to KKK) was a Philippine revolutionary society founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila in 1892, whose primary aim was to gain independence from Spain through revolution.

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Lakandula

Lakan Dula (Baybayin:, Abecedario: Lácandólá) was the regnal name of the last Lakan (paramount ruler or paramount datu) of the pre-colonial Tondo when the Spaniards first conquered the lands of the Pasig River delta in the Philippines, in the 1570s.

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Lea-Artibai

Lea-Artibai is a comarca of the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain.

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League of Barangays in the Philippines

The Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas (League of Barangays in the Philippines) and the Asosasyon ng mga Kapitan ng Barangay (Association of Barangay Captains) are formal organizations of all the barangays in the Philippines.

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Legislative districts of Marikina

The Legislative Districts of Marikina City, namely the first and second districts, are the representations of the City of Marikina in the Philippine House of Representatives.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

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Liberal Party (Philippines)

The Liberal Party of the Philippines (Filipino: Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas) is a liberal and populist political party in the Philippines, founded by then senators Senate President Manuel Roxas, Senate President Pro-Tempore Elpidio Quirino, and former 9th Senatorial District Senator José Avelino, on January 19, 1946 by a breakaway Liberal wing from the old Nacionalista Party.

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List of Philippine laws

This article contains a partial list of Philippine laws.

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List of Philippine provinces by population

This is a list of the Philippines' provinces sorted by population, based on the population census of August 1, 2015 conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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List of renamed cities and municipalities of the Philippines

The following is the List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines and municipalities in the Philippines that underwent a name change in the past.

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List of ZIP codes in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the Philippine ZIP code is used by the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) to simplify the distribution of mail.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Majorat

Majorat is a French term for an arrangement giving the right of succession to a specific parcel of property associated with a title of nobility to a single heir, based on male primogeniture.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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Manila (province)

Manila, also formerly known as Tondo until 1859, was a historical province in the Philippines, encompassing the former pre-Hispanic kingdoms of Tondo and Maynila.

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Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2

The Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2, also known as LRT Line 2, LRT-2, or Megatren, is a rapid transit line in Metro Manila in the Philippines, generally running in an east-west direction along the Radial Road 6 and a portion of the Circumferential Road 1.

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Marcelino Teodoro

Marcelino Teodoro is a Filipino politician who is the current Mayor of Marikina.

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Marides Fernando

Maria Lourdes "Marides" Carlos-Fernando (born February 10, 1957) is a Filipino politician who served as the Mayor of Marikina from 2001 to 2010.

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Marikina

Marikina (Lungsod ng Marikina) is one of the cities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region.

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Marikina Heights

Marikina Heights is one of the barangays of Marikina measuring some 184.16 hectares.

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Marikina Polytechnic College

The Marikina Polytechnic College is a state technical college in the city of Marikina, Philippines.

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Marikina River

Marikina River (Tagalog: Ilog Marikina) is a river in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Marikina River Park

The Marikina River Park is a system of parks, trails, open spaces and recreation facilities along an stretch of the Marikina River in Marikina, eastern Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Marikina Science High School

The Marikina Science High School (Mataas na Paaralang Pang-Agham ng Marikina), known as MSHS or MariSci, is a Philippine public science high school (a high school using the Special Science Curriculum) located at Mayor Juan Chanyungco Street, Sta.

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Marikina Sports Center

The Marikina Sports Center, also known as Marikina Sports Park and formerly known as Rodriguez Sports Center, is a sports complex located in Marikina, at the corner of Shoe Avenue and Sumulong Highway in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Marikina Valley Fault System

The Marikina Valley Fault System, also known as the Valley Fault System (VFS), is a dominantly dextral strike-slip fault system in Luzon, Philippines.

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Marikina–Infanta Highway

The Marikina–Infanta Highway, also known as the Marcos Highway or MARILAQUE Highway (MARILAQUE stands for Manila-Rizal-Laguna-Quezon), is a scenic mountain 110-kilometer highway that connects Metro Manila with Infanta, Quezon in the Philippines.

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Marist School (Marikina)

Marist School (Tagalog: Paaralang Marist) is a Catholic school for boys located in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines established by the Marist Brothers in 1964.

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Markina-Xemein

Markina-Xemein is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, Bizkaia, in the Basque Autonomous Community, also known as the Basque Country, located in northern Spain.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Members Church of God International

Members Church of God International, abbreviated as MCGI, is an international Christian religious organization with headquarters in the Philippines.

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Menudo (stew)

Menudo is a traditional stew from the Philippines.

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Metro Manila

Metropolitan Manila (Kalakhang Maynila, Kamaynilaan) is the seat of government and one of the three defined metropolitan areas of the Philippines.

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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Pagpapaunlad ng Kalakhang Maynila, MMDA), is an agency of the Republic of the Philippines created embracing the cities of Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Pasay, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasig, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, Parañaque, Valenzuela, Malabon, Taguig, Navotas and San Juan and the municipality of Pateros.

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Miro Quimbo

Romero Federico Saenz Quimbo (born December 12, 1969), also known as Miro Quimbo, is a Filipino politician and presently represents Marikina City's 2nd Legislative District in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

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Mixed-use development

Mixed-use development is a type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Montalbán

Montalbán is a town and municipality in Spain with a population of 1,538, an area of 82 km² and a density of 18.75, located in Teruel province, in the autonomous community of Aragón.

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Mother of Divine Providence School

Mother of Divine Providence School is a private school in Marikina City, in the Philippines.

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National Capital Region Police Office

The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) is a division of the Philippine National Police (PNP) which has jurisdiction over Metro Manila, which is also known as the National Capital Region.

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National Christian Life College

The National Christian Life College (NCLC), formerly the Maranatha Christian Academy (MCA), is a private, non-stock, non-sectarian Christian school, with its main campus in Marikina City, Philippines.

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National Historical Commission of the Philippines

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (Pambansang Komisyong Pangkasaysayan ng Pilipinas, abbreviated NHCP) is a government agency of the Philippines.

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Nationalist People's Coalition

The Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC is a conservative political party in the Philippines, founded in 1992 by then presidential candidate Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.

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Negros Occidental

Negros Occidental (Negros Nakatundan; Kasadpang Negros; Kanlurang Negros), also known as or, is a province located in the region of Western Visayas, in the Philippines.

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Noritake

, commonly known as "Noritake," is a tableware and technology company headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Succor College

Our Lady of Perpetual Succor College (OLOPS College or simply OLOPSC) is a private, non-sectarian, educational institution located in Concepcion, Marikina, Philippines, offering preschool, basic and higher education.

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Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish Church (Marikina)

The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of the Abandoned (Spanish: Santuario y Parroquia del Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados; Tagalog: Dambana at Parokya ng Ina ng mga Walang Mag-Ampon) is a Roman Catholic church in Marikina, the Philippines.

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Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina

The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina (simply known as PLMar) is the first city government-funded university in Marikina City, Philippines.

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Pangasinan

Pangasinan (Luyag na Pangasinan; Lalawigan ng Pangasinan; Probinsia ti Pangasinan) is a province in the Philippines.

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Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is an American political satire television sitcom created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.

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Pasig

Pasig is a city in the Philippines.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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PDP–Laban

The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan, more commonly known as PDP–Laban, is the ruling political party in the Philippines.

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Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch)

The Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch), or PMCC (4th Watch), is a Christian church based in the Philippines.

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Philip Morris International

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) is an American multinational cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company, with products sold in over 180 countries outside the United States.

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Philippine Commonwealth Army

The Philippine Army was established in December 1935.

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Philippine Independent Church

The Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente; Malayang Simbahan ng Pilipinas; Libera Ecclesia Philippina, colloquially called the Aglipayan Church) is an independent Christian denomination in the form of a national church in the Philippines.

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Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Surian ng Pilipinas sa Bulkanolohiya at Sismolohiya) abbreviated as PHIVOLCS) is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide information on the activities of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, as well as other specialized information and services primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic, productivity, and sustainable development. It is one of the service agencies of the Department of Science and Technology. PHIVOLCS monitors volcano, earthquake, and tsunami activity, and issues warnings as necessary. It is mandated to mitigate disasters that may arise from such volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other related geotectonic phenomena.

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Philippine National Police

The Philippine National Police (Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas, abbreviated PNP) is the armed, civilian national police force in the Philippines.

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Philippine National Railways

The Philippine National Railways (PNR) (Pambansang Daambakal ng Pilipinas) is a state-owned railway company in the Philippines, operating a single line of track on Luzon.

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Philippine Revolution

The Philippine Revolution (Filipino: Himagsikang Pilipino; Spanish: Revolución Filipina), also called the Tagalog War (Spanish: Guerra Tagalog, Filipino: Digmaang Tagalog) by the Spanish, was a revolution and subsequent conflict fought between the people and insurgents of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain with its Spanish Empire and Spanish colonial authorities in the Spanish East Indies.

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Philippine Standard Time

Philippine Standard Time (Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas, abbreviated PST or PhST), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), is the official name for the time in the Philippines.

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Philippine Statistics Authority

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) was created on September 12, 2013 when the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 (Republic Act No. 10625) was signed by President Benigno S. Aquino III.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pickled cucumber

A pickled cucumber (commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) is a cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment for a period of time, by either immersing the cucumbers in an acidic solution or through souring by lacto-fermentation.

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PMFTC

PMFTC, Inc. is a joint-venture company between Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing, Inc.

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Poblacion

Poblacion or población (literally "town", settlement or "population" in Spanish) is the common term used for the central, downtown, old town or central business district area of a Philippine city or municipality, which may take up the area of a single barangay or multiple barangays.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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President

The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics.

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President of the Philippines

The President of the Philippines (Pangulo ng Pilipinas, informally referred to as Presidente ng Pilipinas; or in Presidente de Filipinas) is the head of state and head of government of the Philippines.

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Pueblo

Pueblos are modern and old communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States.

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Quezon

Quezon is a province of the Philippines in the Calabarzon region of Luzon island.

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Quezon City

Quezon City (Lungsod Quezon,; Ciudad Quezón; also known as QC or Kyusi) is the most populous city in the Philippines.

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Recto LRT station

Recto station is the western terminus station of the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2 (LRT-2), located in Recto Avenue, Santa Cruz, Manila.

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Residential area

A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.

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Riverbanks Center

Riverbanks Center (also known as Marikina Riverbanks/Marikina Riverbanks Center or simply Riverbanks) is an eco-friendly integrated development complex for shopping, recreational, business and commercial along A. Bonifacio Avenue adjacent to Marikina River in Barangka, Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Rizal

Rizal, officially known as the Province of Rizal (Lalawigan ng Rizal), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region, east of Manila.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

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Robinsons Metro East

Robinsons Metro East (formerly known as Robinsons Place Metro East) is a shopping mall owned by Robinsons Malls.

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Rodolfo B. Valentino

Rodolfo Valentino is a Filipino politician and was the appointee of Philippine President Corazon Aquino to serve as Officer-in-charge of Marikina City.

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Rodriguez, Rizal

, Rizal (name), is a settlement_text in the province of,. It was formerly known as and is still commonly referred to as Montalban.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (Archidioecesis Manilensis; Arkidiyosesis ng Maynilà; Arquidiócesis de Manila) is the archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Metro Manila, Philippines, encompassing the cities of Manila, Makati, San Juan, Pasay (except for Villamor Air Base and Newport City which is under the jurisdiction of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines), and Mandaluyong.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo (Lat: Dioecesis Antipolensis) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.

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Roosevelt College Marikina

Roosevelt College Marikina is a private non-sectarian college named in honor of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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San Mateo, Rizal

, officially the, (name), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Sangguniang Panlungsod

The Sangguniang Panlungsod are the legislatures of city governments in the Philippines.

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Santa Elena, Marikina

Santa Elena is one of barangays in Marikina City, Philippines, specifically located in District 1.

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Santolan LRT station

Santolan station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2 (LRT-2).

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Sapang Baho River

The Sapang Baho River is a river system that runs through Rizal Province and Marikina in the Philippines.

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Schurman Commission

The Schurman Commission also known as the First Philippine Commission was established by United States President William McKinley on January 20, 1899, and tasked to study the situation in the Philippines and make recommendations on how the U.S. should proceed after the sovereignty of the Philippines was ceded to the U.S. by Spain on December 10, 1898 following the Treaty of Paris of 1898.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Shoemaking

Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.

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Sierra Madre (Philippines)

The Sierra Madre is the longest mountain range in the Philippines.

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SM City Marikina

SM City Marikina is a shopping mall owned and managed by SM Prime Holdings, and is located in the barangay of Calumpang within Marikina, Philippines.

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Small and medium-sized enterprises

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs, also small and medium enterprises) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spaniards

Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.

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St. Scholastica's Academy of Marikina

St.

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Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall

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STI College

STI College, formerly known as Systems Technology Institute, is the largest network of for-profit information technology based colleges in the Philippines.

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Sumulong Highway

Sumulong Highway, constructed in 1960, is the highway in the Philippines that connects Marikina with Antipolo and the municipalities of Teresa and Morong in the province of Rizal.

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Tagalog language

Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority.

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Tagalog people

The Tagalog people (Baybayin) are a major ethnolingustic group in the Philippines.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) (Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Edukasyong Teknikal at Pagpapaunlad ng Kasanayan) serves as the Philippines’ Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) authority.

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Telephone numbers in the Philippines

Telephone numbers in the Philippines follow an open telephone numbering plan and an open dial plan.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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Tondo (historical polity)

In early Philippine history, the Tagalog settlement at Tondo (Baybayin) was a major trade hub located on the northern part of the Pasig River delta, on Luzon island.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Tricycle

A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.

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Tropical monsoon climate

A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".

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Typhoon Ketsana

Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second most devastating tropical cyclone in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season with a damage of $1.09 billion and 747 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 789 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion.

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Typhoon Ruby (1988)

Typhoon Ruby, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Unsang, was the strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines in 18 years.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wet market

In Hong Kong English and Singapore English, a wet market is a market selling fresh meat and produce, distinguished from dry markets which sell durable goods such as cloth and electronics.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xyza Diazen

Xyza R. Diazen is a Filipina politician and is the youngest incumbent city councilor of Marikina's Second District.

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2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods

The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikina

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