Kingdom of Namayan
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 Charcoal: approximate territorial extent of Namayan over a map of modern Metro Manila
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| Capital | Sapa (now Santa Ana, Manila) |
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| Languages | Old Tagalog | |||||||||
| Government | Lakanate | |||||||||
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Iron Age Middle Ages |
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| • | Established | 1175 | ||||||||
| • | Conquest by Spain | 1571 | ||||||||
| Currency | Piloncitos | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Philippines
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Namayan (Baybayin: Pre-kudlit: ᜈᜋᜌ Post-Kudlit: ᜈᜋᜌᜈ᜔ )(also called Sapa, Maysapan or Nasapan, and sometimes Lamayan, and often anachronistically referred to as a "Kingdom") was one of three major polities that dominated the banks of the Pasig River and the coast of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines prior to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
Namayan is said to be the oldest of the three polities, predating the historical polities of Tondo and Maynila. Formed by a confederation of barangays, it is said to have achieved its peak in 1175.
Namayan was a pre-colonial Indianized kingdom. Much of what is known about precolonial Namayan is based on "Estado Geográfico, Topográfico, Estadístico, Histórico-Religioso de la Santa y Apostólica Província de San Gregorio Magno", published in 1865 by Franciscan scholar Fr. Felix de Huerta. His description of Namayan included important details such as the extent of Namayan's territories, and the lineage of its rulers.
Three present-day locations are identified as the political centres of Namayan. Two of these are within today's Santa Ana, Manila, and the other is now a barangay of the Mandaluyong City across the river from the other sites.
The site most associated with the kingdom is the town proper of Santa Ana, which grew around the Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish. This site did not become the centre of the settlement until 1578, when Franciscan missionaries chose to build the parish church of Santa Ana de Sapa some distance away from the original town. Local referred to the site as "Maysapan", or more simply, "Sapa."
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