Namayan
Namayan (Baybayin: Pre-Kudlit: or (Sapa), Post-Kudlit: ), also called Sapa, Maysapan, and sometimes Lamayan, was an independent indigenous: 193 polity on the banks of the Pasig River in the Philippines. It is believed to have achieved its peak in 1175, and to have gone into decline sometime in the 13th century, although it continued to be inhabited until the arrival of European colonizers in the 1570s.
Namayan (Baybayin) | |||||||||
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| before 1175–1571 | |||||||||
Santa Ana (highlighted in blue) and Pasay (highlighted in green) on a detail of the 1819 map "Plano de la ciudad de Manila, capital de las Yslas Filipinas", prepared by Francisco Xavier de Herrera lo Grabó for the Manila Land Survey Year of 1819. According to Fray. Felix Huerta, the district of Santa Ana was raised in a former territory of the pre-Hispanic polity called Namayan. | |||||||||
| Status | Precolonial Barangay under the house of Lakan Tagkan: 193 Personal union with Tondo through the traditional lineage of Kalangitan and Bagtas (Legendary antiquity) | ||||||||
| Capital | Namayan, Mandaluyong or Maysapan | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old Tagalog, Old Malay | ||||||||
| Government | Feudalism under Barangay state led by the house of Lakan Tagkan | ||||||||
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• Established | before 1175 | ||||||||
• Conquest by Spain | 1571 | ||||||||
| Currency | Piloncitos and gold rings | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Philippines | ||||||||
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Formed by a confederation of barangays, it was one of several polities on the Pasig River just prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, alongside Tondo, Maynila, and Cainta.
Archeological findings in Santa Ana have produced the oldest evidence of continuous habitation among the Pasig River polities, pre-dating artifacts found within the historical sites of Maynila and Tondo.