Ternate, Cavite

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official_name = Municipality of Ternate
other_name = Bayan ng Ternate
native_name = Municipalidad de Ternate
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Philippines
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subdivision_name1 = CALABARZON (Region IV-A)
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subdivision_name2 = 3rd District of Cavite
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class = 4th class municipality
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Conrado Lindo (Partido Magdalo)
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population_total = 20,457
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footnotes = The Municipality of Ternate (Filipino: "Bayan ng Ternate") is a fourth class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 20,457 people.

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 Nino Franco, De Leon, Ramos, De la Cruz, Esteubar, 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 fought against Moro pirates.

External links

* [http://cavitefolks.com/in-cavite/~ternate/history.html History of Ternate]
* [http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/default.asp Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
* [http://www.t-macs.com/kiso/local/ 2000 Philippine Census Information]