Sulu Archipelago
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Sulu Archipelago is an island chain in the southwest Philippines. It is considered to be part of Moroland by the local independence movement. With the centers in Maimbung and Jolo, the whole of this archipelago, Palawan and coastal regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula and North Borneo used to be part of the thallasocratic Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. It is home to the indigenous Tausug, Sama, Yakan, Badjaw and Jama Mapun peoples. Sug language is spoken widely. Yakan language is mainly spoken in the Basilan island group, Sinama in Tawi-Tawi island group and Mapun in the Mapun island group.
The island chain is one of two partial land bridges to Borneo and is an important migration route for birds. Excavations in Bolobok Cave (Sanga-Sanga Island, Tawi-Tawi Province) shows human settlement around 2,000 years before the birth of Christ. So far, it is a definitive source of the beginning of artistic development in the country.
[edit] See also
- Sulu (a province of the Philippines)
- Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines
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