The Kingdom of Butuan

Cards (18)

  • Indication of this
    • Rhinoceros ivory seal with a design carved in ancient Javanese or early Kawi script
  • Butuan
    A place that has been around for a very long time in the northeast part of Mindanao
  • Butuan rose to become an international trading centre
  • Butuan had cosmopolitan tastes for fine clothing and jewelry, chinaware, cosmetics, gold ornamentation and silver-smithing technology
  • The belief adds credence to claims of evidence of the existence for the Kingdom of Butuan
  • Butuan was a flourishing and highly-civilized community
    5th to the 14th century AD
  • The name Butuan is believed to have existed before the Spanish conquistadores arrival in the Philippines
  • There is a favourite saying among the Butuanons that, “… in the Beginning, there was no Philippines, but there was Butuan”
  • Another account suggests the name derives from
    • The word ‘batuan’, a mangosteen-like fruit tree thriving in Mindanao
  • Butuan was a flourishing and highly-civilized community
  • Butuan possessed a developed political structure
  • Sources of the name Butuan
    • Rhinoceros ivory seal with a design carved in ancient Javanese or early Kawi script
    • The word ‘batuan’, a mangosteen-like fruit tree thriving in Mindanao
  • The seal was deciphered as ‘But-wan’
  • The name Butuan is believed to have existed before the Spanish conquistadores arrival in the Philippines
  • An indication of this is a rhinoceros ivory seal with a design carved in ancient Javanese or early Kawi script
  • Another account suggests the name derives from the word ‘batuan’, a mangosteen-like fruit tree thriving in Mindanao
  • Butuan has been around for a very long time in the northeast part of Mindanao
  • An indication of this is a rhinoceros ivory seal with a design carved in ancient Javanese or early Kawi script (used around the 10th century AD) according to a Dutch scholar Antoon Postma, was deci-phered as ‘But-wan’.