Kota Serudong
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| Kota Seludong Maynila کوتا سلودوڠ |
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| Puppet state of the Bruneian Empire | ||||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Intramuros (Formerly called Selurong in those days.) | |||||||||||||||
| Languages | Old Malay, Old Tagalog | |||||||||||||||
| Religion |
Sunni Islam (Predominantly) Philippine religion |
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| Government |
Sultanate (from Bolkiah to Rajah Salalila, c. 1500–1558) Rajahnate (from Rajah Matanda up to Rajah Sulayman from 1558–1575) |
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| History | ||||||||||||||||
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Brunei invasion of Tondo (1500–1558) established by the Kingdom of Brunei under Sultan Bolkiah |
c. 1500 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Conquest by Spain | 1570 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Philippines
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The Kingdom of Maynila, also known as Seludong, was a major polity located at present-day Manila in the Philippines in the 16th century. A vassal state of the Bruneian Empire, it and Tondo were the two major polities that dominated the area around the mouth of the Pasig River before the arrival of the Spanish.
Laura Lee Junker, in her 1998 review of primary sources regarding archaic Philippine polities, lists the primary sources of information regarding the river delta polities of Maynila and Tondo as “Malay texts, Philippine oral traditions, Chinese tributary records and geographies, early Spanish writings, and archaeological evidence.” Primary sources for the history of Rajah Kalamayin's Namayan, further upriver, include artifacts dug up from archaeological digs (the earliest of which was Robert Fox’s work for the National Museum in 1977) and Spanish colonial records (most notably those compiled by the 19th century Franciscan Historian Fray Felix Huerta).
Junker noted the inherent biases of each of the written sources, emphasizing the need to counter-check their narratives with one another, and with empirical archeological evidence.
Early records claim that Maynila was named after the Yamstick Mangrove (Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea, formerly named Ixora manila blanco), whose local name was "nila" or "nilad", by the time the Spanish colonizers arrived in the late 16th century. The name "maynila" itself transliterates as "There is nila (here)", and an alternative name for the place is "maynilad." Emma Helen Blair, in the multi-volume collection of Philippine documents The Philippine Islands, notes "the name Manila is derived from a Tagalog word, Manilad, meaning 'a place overgrown with Nilad' which is the name of a small tree, bearing white flowers" - a description that matches Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea/Ixora manila.
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