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Rajah Sulayman

Rajah Sulayman III ruled the pre-Hispanic Kingdom of Maynila at the mouth of the Pasig River in modern-day Manila from 1558 to 1575. He inherited rule over the neighboring kingdoms of Tondo and Namayan, becoming the first ruler to personally unite all three realms. Sulayman III was the second-to-last indigenous ruler of Maynila, as the kingdom and most of the Philippines were gradually absorbed into the Spanish Empire in the late 16th century. He resisted the Spanish forces and defended the Port of Manila and Pasig River delta against their conquest in the early 1570s.

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Rajah Sulayman

Rajah Sulayman III ruled the pre-Hispanic Kingdom of Maynila at the mouth of the Pasig River in modern-day Manila from 1558 to 1575. He inherited rule over the neighboring kingdoms of Tondo and Namayan, becoming the first ruler to personally unite all three realms. Sulayman III was the second-to-last indigenous ruler of Maynila, as the kingdom and most of the Philippines were gradually absorbed into the Spanish Empire in the late 16th century. He resisted the Spanish forces and defended the Port of Manila and Pasig River delta against their conquest in the early 1570s.

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Rajah Sulayman also Sulayman III,

1558–1575 was the Rajah or ruler of


the Kingdom of Maynila, a pre-
Hispanic Moro vassal-kingdom of the
Sultanate of Brunei at the mouth of
the Pasig River in what is now Manila,
Philippines. He also inherited rule of
nearby Tondo and Namayan,
becoming the first sovereign to hold
all three realms in personal union.
He was the kingdom's penultimate
indigenous ruler, as the state (along
with Luzon and most of the
archipelago), was gradually absorbed
into the Spanish Empire beginning in
the late 16th century. His eldest son,
Banao Dula, was crowned Lakan
(paramount ruler) when Sulayman I
was too sick to function as monarch.
Sulayman I is the grandson of Abdul
Bolkiah of the Sultanate of Brunei and
the son of Sulayman Bolkiah.
Sulayman l did not use the surname
Bolkiah but instead used the official
title of Rajah Soliman Dula l, to mark
the new era of a united Manila
aristocracy.
Sulayman III resisted Spanish forces,
and thus, along with Rajah Matanda
and Lakan Dula, was one of three
monarchs who defended and figured
greatly in the Spanish conquest of the
Port of Manila and the Pasig River
delta in the early 1570s.

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