<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains special characters . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols . </Td> </Tr> <P> The name of the Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas (pɪlɪˈpinɐs), Spanish: Filipinas) is a truncated form of The Philippine Islands, derived from the King Philip II of Spain in the 16th century . During the expedition of Ruy López de Villalobos to the Islands, Spanish sailor Bernardo de la Torre used the name Las Islas Filipinas in honour of the then - Prince of Asturias, originally referring to the islands of Leyte and Samar . Despite the presence of other names, the name Filipinas (Philippines) was eventually adopted as the name of the entire archipelago . </P> <P> The official name of the Philippines, however, has changed throughout the course of its history . During the Philippine Revolution, the state officially called itself República Filipina, now referred to as the First Philippine Republic . From the period of the Spanish--American War and the Philippine--American War until the Commonwealth, United States colonial authorities referred to the Philippines as the Philippine Islands, a direct translation of the original Spanish . It was during the American Period that the name "Philippines" began to appear, a name that was officially adopted . </P> <Ul> <Li> Ma - i . According to the Zhao Rugua's (趙汝适) book Zhu Fan Zhi (诸 蕃 志) written around the 13th century during the Song Dynasty, there was a group of islands found in southern South China Sea called Ma - i (麻 逸, Pinyin: Máyì). The islands groups were later invaded and renamed and identified by the Spanish to be the island of Mindoro . This was further proved by Ferdinand Blumentritt in his 1882 book, Versuch einer Ethnographie der Philippinen (An Attempt to the Study of Ethnography of the Philippines) that Ma - i, which means "country of the Blacks" was the Chinese local name of present - day Mindoro . On the other hand, historians claimed that Ma - i was not an island, but all the south of South Sea islands groups and Manila itself, which was known to be an overseas Chinese settlement which was in constant contact with the Chinese mainland as early as the 9th century AD . </Li> </Ul>

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