It has historically been linked with the Muslim Moro people of Mindanao, particularly in the island of Jolo.

Since inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.

Earlier it has been estimated that the territory is about, but a study on Mindanao Island found the nearest distance between breeding pairs to be about on average, resulting in a circular plot of.

The first captive breeding was only achieved in 1992 at the facility of the Philippine Eagle Foundation in Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines, which has bred it several times since then.

The term is used mostly in Mindanao, but due to the popularity of the term outside of the Philippines and the influence of foreign practitioners the term has now been accepted as a synonym for eskrima and arnis.

The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor.

Northern Mindanao has a total land area of 14, 032. 93 km² of which 6, 571 km² is alienable and disposable lands, and the remaining 7, 461. 99 km².

The province has an area of 2, 740 square kilometers which is roughly equivalent to 9. 67 percent of the total land area of Northern Mindanao.

Its regional center, Davao City, has an annual income of about P4. 13 billion in 2010, without introducing new taxes, making it as the most economically rich city both in Mindanao and Visayas and also outside Metro Manila after Makati ( P10. 1 billion ), Quezon City ( P9. 4 billion ), Manila ( P7. 3 billion ), and Pasig ( P5. 3 billion ).

The international airport in Davao City, Davao International Airport, is the largest and most developed in Mindanao, has the second longest runway in the island, and the third most busiest in the country, after Ninoy Aquino International Airport and Mactan-Cebu International Airport.

Aside from its forestland and fertile fields, Southern Mindanao has mineral resources of chromite, iron, nickel, manganese, gold, copper and other non-metallic minerals.

Today, Sulu has a locally constituted government under the new leadership of Governor Benjamin T. Loong and is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Maguindanao province is, in fact, a part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( ARMM ) which has its seat in Cotabato City.

Though this practice has died out among the Maranao due to its non-Islamic nature, some areas in Mindanao, Sabah and Maluku still practice this ancient tradition.

Since inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, with a claimed overarching goal of creating a Pan-Islamic superstate across the Malay portions of Southeast Asia, spanning, from east to west, the large island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago ( Basilan and Jolo islands ), the large island of Borneo ( Malaysia and Indonesia ), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Burma ).

Before the final conquest of the central part of Mindanao ( Bukidnon area ), Sumilao, Linabo, Mailag and Silae has been established by Spanish missionaries ( Dominicans and Jesuits ).

Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago with the stated goal of creating a pan-Islamic superstate across southeast Asia, spanning from east to west ; the island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, the island of Borneo ( Malaysia, Indonesia ), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar ).

In political contexts, however, the term Lumad groups ( derived from the Cebuano term for native people ) has become popular as a generic term for the various indigenous peoples of Mindanao.

The scientists conclude the octopus is from the Mindanao Deep and has been forced out of its natural habitat due to hydrogen bomb testing in the area.

The Mindanao State University, founded on September 1, 1961 through Republic Act 1387 and Republic Act 1893, has evolved over the years in keeping with national and local developments.

The brain-child of late Senator, Domocao Alonto, it has grows from its main campus Marawi City to a University System that now comprises several campuses located in major centers in Mindanao and Sulu.

Ms. Aguilar has written more than a hundred essays, a handful of which were done when she went " underground "– first as an ordinary member, then later as head of the Regional United Front Commission of Mindanao, and last as head of the National United Front Commission of the Communist Party of the Philippines, from which she resigned in 1984.

In the Visayas and Mindanao, these martial arts have been referred to as eskrima, kali and kalirongan.

Carefully hidden and moved by barge at night, the crates reached Mindanao on 26 March, where a makeshift air depot had been established in a coconut grove at Buenavista Airfield using mechanics of the 19th Bomb Group and the 440th Ordnance Company.

This may have given rise to the term, Sea Dayak, although, throughout the 19th Century, Sarawak Government raids and independent expeditions appeared to have been carried out as far as Brunei, Mindanao, East coast Malaya, Jawa and Celebes.

Negros Island, the third largest island in the Philippines, is believed to have once been part of the island of Mindanao, but was cut off — either by continental drift or the rising waters at the end of the ice age.

Based on the etymology, two routes have been proposed as the route for the kulintang to Mindanao: One from Sunda, through Banjermasin, Brunei and the Sulu Archipelago, a route where the word “ kulintangan ” is commonly used for the horizontal row of gongs ; The other from Sunda, thru, Timor, Sulawesi, Moluccas and Mindanao where the word kolintang / kulintang is commonly seen.

Speakers in Mindanao and Luzon refer to the language simply as Binisaya or Bisaya, and such calling is been disagreed by its speakers for limiting the term to Cebuano only and not to the other Visayan languages like Waray-waray and Hiligaynon

There have been allegations in the Philippine press and elsewhere that visiting forces from the United States appear to have become a permanent fixture in the landscape of Zamboanga City and other crisis-torn parts of Mindanao.

A 20th B-17 was nearing Clark, having been sent up from Mindanao to repair a wing fuel tank.

The Abu Sayyaf Group, also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, is one of several militant Islamic-separatist groups based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao ) where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for a state, independent of the predominantly Christian Philippines.

Although initially objected to by MacArthur, the by-passing of Rabaul in favor of its neutralization meant that his Elkton plan had been achieved, and after invading Saidor, MacArthur then moved into his Reno Plan, an advance across the north coast of New Guinea to Mindanao.

Ateneo de Davao is the only university in Mindanao to have been granted " institutional accreditation " by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities which denotes the highest distinction in the Philippines in consideration of its number of individual program accreditations and the result of an overall evaluation of the quality of its facilities, services, and faculty.

The Ateneo de Davao University is the only school in Mindanao which as been granted " institutional accreditation " which denotes the highest distinction in the Philippines in consideration of its number of individual program accreditations and the result of an overall evaluation of the quality of its facilities, services, and faculty.

In the 15th century, Islam had been established in the Sulu Archipelago and spread from there to Mindanao ; it had reached the Manila area by 1565.

The Japanese could not take any major actions against USFIP on Mindanao as, not only were they dealing with other resistance movements in the Philippines, but most of their combat troops had been deployed to other areas of the Pacific.

The beautiful Narra Avenue has been a transportation nexus in Mindanao

With some families experiencing early the economic boom brought about by success in the retail business, mostly in Leyte, Samar, Negros and Mindanao, and in the practice of their professions, all the other old houses have been replaced with concrete ones with modern designs.

The friendship of these two officers had been tested in many a battle against Muslim pirates in Mindanao.

Seeing that the Roman Catholic Church has long been established in the Philippine Islands, missionary Charles Henry Brent mentioned that " we are not building an altar over and against another altar ," thus focusing Episcopal missionary activities among the Chinese of Manila, the tribes in Mindanao and the tribes of northern Luzon.

After the dissolution of the republic, Zamboanga was eventually consolidated into one major administrative area by the American government of the Philippines, consisting of an enormous region that was the Mindanao island's western peninsula, Basilan island, and the entire Sulu archipelago, with the ancient namesake town – fort of Zamboanga as the seat of its government, and was called the Moro Province of the Philippines.