Editing Mandaue (section)

== History ==

A community was established in Mandaue by a flourishing group of [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] people. The [[Venice|Venetian]] chronicler [[Antonio Pigafetta]] wrote of a settlement called "Mandaui" which existed in the area with a chieftain named Apanoaan<ref name="Discovery of sugbo by the west">{{cite book | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=eeY0ifyij6QC&q=mandani+aponoan&pg=PA288 | title = To America and Around the World: The Logs of Christopher Columbus and of ... | work = Antonio Pigafetta, Raleigh Ashlin Skelton| publisher = Branden Publishing Co.| isbn = 9780828320634 | year = 2001 }}</ref> some called him Lambuzzan in other accounts.<ref name="Lambusan chief of Mandaui">{{cite book | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=RB4usvtAZrEC&q=lambuzzan+mandaui&pg=PA84| title = Magellan's voyage: a narrative of the first circumnavigation | work = Antonio Pigafetta/ Adolph Caso| publisher = Yale University| isbn = 9780486280998 | year = 1994 }}</ref>

Mandaue natives were forced into a town as decreed by the Spanish authorities. This may have started off as a mission village (which included present day [[Consolacion]], [[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]] and [[Poro, Cebu|Poro]]) serving as a bulwark for the church in the northern Cebu and was managed by the Jesuit in 1638 then a century later by the Recollects.<ref name="Mandaue City">{{cite web| url = http://www.admu.edu.ph/offices/mirlab/panublion/r7_mandaue.html| title = Mandaue| work = admu.edu.ph| access-date = June 4, 2010| archive-date = September 27, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927162411/http://www.admu.edu.ph/offices/mirlab/panublion/r7_mandaue.html| url-status = dead}}</ref>

The [[Philippine revolution|Philippine Revolution]] of 1898 gave the town a new form of administration in accordance with the organic decree of the Central Revolutionary Government. The short-lived revolution was overthrown by the American troops and a battle nearly destroyed the town in 1901, killing [[Municipal president|Presidente]] Benito Ceniza.{{sfn|Mojares|1999}}

Mandaue was a semi-autonomous functioning town. Semi-autonomous as it was still under the jurisdiction of Cebu. Despite having been developed and organized by the Spaniards throughout the ages and its population increasing as the years gone by, the Spaniards did not make an initiative to elevate the town into an independent municipality. It was only after the death of Presidente Ceniza and the establishment of American Rule in Mandaue that the dream of becoming an independent municipality came true. In 1901, Mandaue became an independent municipality.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mandauecity.gov.ph/ |title=Home |website=mandauecity.gov.ph}}</ref>

Mandaue became independent from being an American Commonwealth and a Japanese garrison on July 4, 1946, along with the entire nation.

=== Cityhood ===
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[[File:Flag of Mandaue.gif|thumb|Former flag of Mandaue]]
On August 30, 1969, Mandaue became a chartered city and decades later it was recognized as a highly urbanized city on February 15, 1991.<ref name="History">{{cite web| url = http://www.mandauecity.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57| title = History| work = Mandaue City| publisher = Mandaue city government| access-date = April 6, 2010| archive-date = May 16, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110516025616/http://www.mandauecity.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57| url-status = dead}}</ref> In early-April 2019, Mandaue separated from the sixth district and, since 2022, is represented under its lone district.<ref name= "corrales1">{{cite news |last1=Corrales |first1=Nestor |title=Duterte signs law creating lone legislative district of Mandaue City |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1115211/duterte-signs-law-creating-lone-legislative-district-of-mandaue-city |access-date=November 19, 2021 |work=INQUIRER.net |date=May 8, 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Villanueva |first1=Ralph |title=Duterte signs law creating lone district of Mandaue City |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/duterte-signs-law-creating-lone-district-of-mandaue-city/551369/ |access-date=November 19, 2021 |work=The Manila Times |date=May 8, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
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