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Ternate is a 4th class Municipality in the Province of Cavite , Philippines . According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 17,179 people in 3,541 households. BARANGAYS Ternate is politically subdivided into 10 Barangay s (3 urban and 7 rural).
HISTORY The Merdicas/Mardicas were a tribe of Malays of Ternate in the Moluccas which was a small Spanish colony. Before this it was a Portuguese colony. Mardicas, meant "People of the Sea". There were originally seven families, whose family names were De Leon, Ramos, De la Cruz, Estibar, Pereira, and Nigoza. In 1574 , the merdicas volunteered to come to Cavite to support the Spanish against the threat of invasion of the Chinese pirate, Limahong . The invasion did not occur but the community of Merdicas settled in a place, which at first was named "Gilolo" after a tree similar to theirs in the Moluccas. Then it was changed to "Barra de Maragondon" at a sandbar at the mouth of the Maragondon River. Today, the place is called Ternate and the community of Merdicas continued to use "broken Spanish" which evolved into the full-fedged Philippine Spanish creole called Ternateño or Ternateño Chavacano . In 1663, some Merdicas were ordered by the Governor General to establish themselves in Bagumbayan (now Ermita ) and protect Manila. About 200 of them to fought against Moro pirates. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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