Ternate, Cavite
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 barangays (3 urban and 7 rural).
- Poblacion I (Barangay I)
- Poblacion II (Barangay II)
- Bucana
- Poblacion III (Barangay III)
- San Jose
- San Juan I
- Sapang I
- Poblacion I A
- San Juan II
- Sapang II
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 came to be 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.
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