Republic of Negros
| Republic of Negros | ||||||||||
| US Protectorate (1899–1901) | ||||||||||
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 Location of Negros in the Philippines
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| Capital | Bacolod | |||||||||
| Languages | Hiligaynon, Cebuano and Spanish | |||||||||
| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| President | Aniceto Lacson | |||||||||
| Governor General of the Provinces | Melecio Severino | |||||||||
| President of the Chamber of Deputies | José Ruiz de Luzurriaga | |||||||||
| Legislature | Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||
| Historical era | New Imperialism | |||||||||
| • | End of the Negros Revolution | November 27, 1898 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | April 30, 1901 | ||||||||
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Negros Island Region,  Philippines
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Flag of the Revolutionary Government in Bacolod (1899)
The Republic of Negros (Spanish: República de Negros; Hiligaynon: Republika sang Negros; Cebuano: Republika sa Negros; Filipino: Republika ng Negros) was a short-lived revolutionary republic in the eponymous island, and later, an administrative division, which existed while the Philippines was under Spanish and American sovereignty.
From 3 November to 6 November 1898, the people of Negros rose in revolt against the Spanish authorities headed by politico-military governor, colonel Isidro de Castro. The Spaniards decided to surrender upon seeing armed troops marching in a pincer movement towards Bacolod, the main city of the island. The revolutionaries, led by generals Juan Araneta, from Bago and Aniceto Lacson, from Talisay, were actually carrying fake arms consisting of rifles carved out of palm fronds and cannons of rolled bamboo mats painted black. By the afternoon of 6 November, colonel de Castro signed the Act of Capitulation, thus ending Spanish colonial rule in both Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental.
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