Editing Tagaytay (section)

==History==

===Philippine Revolution===
During the [[Philippine Revolution]] of 1896, the ridges and forests of Tagaytay became a sanctuary for revolutionaries including those from nearby provinces. The passage to and from towns via Tagaytay added the word "mananagaytay" to the native's vocabulary. It means "to traverse ridges."<ref name=history>{{cite web|title=Tagaytay City Ecological Profile 2013|url=http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/images/ecological%20profile.pdf|website=Tagaytay City Official Web site|publisher=Tagaytay City Government|pages=1–2|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025448/http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/images/ecological%20profile.pdf|archive-date=November 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Cityhood===
{{see also|Cities of the Philippines}}
Tagaytay became a chartered city with the passing and signing of Commonwealth Act No. 338 by President [[Manuel L. Quezon]] on June 21, 1938,<ref name="CA338">{{cite PH act|chamber=CA|number=338|title=An Act to incorporate the City of Tagaytay, and for other purposes |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1938/06/21/commonwealth-act-no-338/ |website=[[Official Gazette (Philippines)|Official Gazette of the Philippines]]|access-date=June 25, 2021 |date=June 21, 1938}}</ref> as authored by Representative [[Justiniano Montano]] of Cavite.<ref>[http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/Gen%20Info%20-%20history.html "History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805022402/http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/Gen%20Info%20-%20history.html |date=August 5, 2012 }}. Official Website of Tagaytay City. Retrieved on February 4, 2012.</ref> To form the newly founded city, areas of the towns of Silang, Mendez, Indang, and Amadeo were removed from their town governments, making it the first planned community in the province and the first city to be built from scratch, given the ongoing highway works in the area then.

===Territorial changes===
On April 1, 1941, portions of [[Talisay, Batangas]] and [[Alfonso, Cavite]] were ceded to Tagaytay through Executive Order No. 336 signed by President Quezon to expand its territory.<ref>{{cite PH act|chamber=EO|number=336, s. 1941|title=Defining the Territorial Limits of the City of Tagaytay|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1941/04/01/executive-order-no-336-s-1941/|date=April 1, 1941|accessdate=July 7, 2023|website=[[Official Gazette (Philippines)|Official Gazette of the Philippines]]}}</ref> However, on June 7, 1956, the lakeside barangays of Birinayan (Berinayan) and Caloocan on the shores of Taal Lake were returned to Talisay.<ref>{{cite PH act|chamber=RA|number=1418|title=An Act to Transfer to the Municipality of Talisay, Province of Batangas, Its Former Barrios of Caloocan and Binirayan Which Were Annexed to the City of Tagaytay|url=https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/22121|date=June 7, 1956|accessdate=July 7, 2023|website=Supreme Court E-Library}}</ref> Berinayan later became part of [[Laurel, Batangas|Laurel]] when the municipality was established in 1969.<ref>{{cite PH act|chamber=RA|number=5689|title=An Act Creating the Municipality of Laurel in the Province of Batangas|url=https://thecorpusjuris.com/legislative/republic-acts/ra-no-5689.php|date=June 21, 1969|accessdate=July 3, 2023|publisher=The Corpus Juris}}</ref>

===World War II===
[[File:TagaytayRidge HistoricalMarker TagaytayCity.jpg|left|thumb|191x191px|1951 Historical marker commemorating Tagaytay landing.]]
On February 3, 1945, the [[11th Airborne Division (United States)|11th Airborne Division]] of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger's 8th Army performed a combat jump of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment and associated elements on Tagaytay ridge, with a drop zone around the Manila Hotel Annex, which had been cleared of Japanese forces by the Fil-American Cavite Guerilla Forces of General Mariano Castaneda, After the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, the Fil-American Cavite Guerilla Force resisted the Japanese occupation forces and were instrumental in clearing the landing zone of the 11th Airborne Division . To commemorate this event, a [[Historical markers of the Philippines|marker]] was installed in 1951 at the junction of Silang, Canlubang-Nasugbu roads by the city officials in coordination with the [[National Historical Institute]] of the Philippines.<ref name="history" />