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Maluku Besar: Original Name of Mindanao ?

Mindanao could not have been the original name of Mindanao Island. Mindanao was most probably a shorter way of saying Maguindanao. Probably there was an apostrophe to indicate abbreviation – M’indanao. The Dutch, Spanish and the British usually misspell Moro names.

In historical documents, the foreigners referred to Qudarat and other Maguindanao sultans as Sultans of Mindanao when they clearly…