Feb. 26th: Zamboanga Festival Day
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4 min readFeb 27
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Talk about a melting pot.
Zamboanga City, on the island of Mindanao, comprises an extraordinarily diverse population of nearly one million. Back before the Spanish arrived, Malay settlers were here for thousands of years along with the indigenous peoples. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Chinese and Malay frequently traded here. When Arab missionaries arrived in the 15th century, they…
