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Lapulapu is widely known for the Battle of Mactan. On April 26, 1521, he and his m defeated the Spanish forces, led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his native allies Rajah Humabon and Datu Zula.

Until the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi in 1564. Legazpi continued the expeditions of Magellan, leading to the colonization of the Philippines for 333 years.

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Modern Philippine society regards him as the first Filipino hero because of his resistance to imperial Spanish colonization. Monumts of Lapulapu have be built all over the Philippines to honor Lapulapu's bravery against the Spaniards. The Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire Protection use his image as part of their official seals.

Besides being a rival of Rajah Humabon of neighboring Cebu, very little is reliably known about the life of Lapulapu. The only existing primary source mtioning him by name is the account of Antonio Pigafetta, and according to historian Resil B. Mojares, no European who left a primary record of Magellan's voyage/vessel knew what he looked like, heard him speak (his recorded words of defiance and pride are all indirect), or mtioned that he was prest in the battle of Mactan that made him famous.

The earliest record of his name comes from Italian diarist Antonio Pigafetta who accompanied Magellan's expedition. Pigafetta noted the names of two chiefs of the island of Matan (Miramonte), the chiefs Zula and Çilapulapu.

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Pigafetta's account of Magellan's voyage, which contains the only mtion of Lapulapu by name in an undisputed primary source, exists in several variant manuscripts and print editions, the earliest dating to around 1524.

In an annotation for his 1890 edition of Antonio de Morga's 1609 Sucesos de las islas Filipinas, José Rizal spells the name as Si Lapulapu. This supplemts a passage where Morga mtions Magellan's death in Mactan, but does not mtion the Mactan leader by name.

In Philippine languages, si (plural siná) is an article used to indicate personal names. Thus Si Lapulapu, as rdered by Rizal, was subsequtly interpreted by others to mean this way (though Rizal never explicitly asserts this himself) and the Si was dropped, evtually cemting the Mactan leader's name in Filipino culture as Lapulapu or Lapu-Lapu (e.g. Siya si Lapulapu He is Lapulapu vs. Siya si Si Lapulapu He is Si Lapulapu). However, this meaning for Si or Çi in Lapulapu's recorded name is doubtful because not all names recorded by Pigafetta contain it, as would be the case if it were. In an annotation of his 1800 edition of Pigafetta's account, Carlo Amoretti surmised that the Si or Çi found in several native names recorded by Pigafetta was an honorific title.

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In 1604, Fr. Prudcio de Sandoval in his Historia de la Vida y Hechos del Emperador Carlos V spelled the name as Calipulapo, perhaps through transposing the first A and I and misreading the Ç.

This further became Cali Pulaco in the 1614 poem Que Dios le perdone (May God Forgive Him) by mestizo de sangley poet Carlos Calao.

This rdition, spelled as Kalipulako, was later adopted as one of the pseudonyms of the Philippine hero Mariano Ponce during the Propaganda Movemt.

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The 1898 Philippine Declaration of Indepdce of Cavite II el Viejo, also mtions Lapulapu under the name Rey Kalipulako de Manktan [sic] (King Kalipulako of Mactan).

This name variation has further led to claims that Lapulapu was a Caliph and thus Muslim, whereas Pigafetta notes that the region was not Islamized.

In 2019, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines' National Quinctnial Committee, tasked with handling preparations for the 500th anniversary commemoration of Magellan's arrival, stated that Lapulapu without the hyph is the correct spelling of the Mactan ruler's name, being based on Pigafetta's original spelling, which they took to be Çilapulapu (approximately rdered as Silapulapu, not Kilapulapu, in equivalt Philippine orthography). The committee agreed with previous scholarship that the Si in his name reported by Pigafetta probably was an indigous form of the Hindu honorific Sri, so Lapulapu would probably have be called Si Lapulapu.

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In 2021, Presidt Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 152, officially calling to change the rdering of the Filipino hero's name from Lapu-Lapu to Lapulapu, to conform with earlier referces.

There had be many folk accounts surrounding Lapulapu's origin. One oral tradition is that the Sugbuanons of Opong was once ruled by a datu named Mangal and later succeeded by his son named Lapulapu.

Another is from the book Aginid, Bayok sa Atong Tawarik (Glide on, Odes to Our History) published in 1952 by Jovito Abellana, which supposedly records the oral chronicles from the reign of the last king of Cebu, Rajah Tupas (d. 1565). However, its historicity is doubtful. The chronicle records the founding of the Rajahnate of Cebu by a certain Sri Lumay (also known as Rajamuda Lumaya), who was a Hindu prince from the Chola dynasty of Sumatra. His sons, Sri Alho and Sri Ukob, ruled the neighboring communities of Sialo and Nahalin, respectively. The islands they were in were collectively known as Pulua Kang Dayang or Kangdaya (literally [the islands] of the lady). Sri Lumay was known for his strict policies in defding against Moro raiders and slavers from Mindanao. His use of scorched earth tactics to repel invaders gave rise to the name Kang Sri Lumayng Sugbo (literally that of Sri Lumay's great fire) to the town, which was later shorted to Sugbo (conflagration).

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Upon his death in a battle against the raiders, Sri Lumay was succeeded by his youngest son, Sri Bantug, who ruled from the region of Singhapala (literally lion city), now Mabolo in modern Cebu City. Sri Bantug died of a disease during an epidemic and was succeeded by his son Rajah Humabon (also known as Sri Humabon or Rajah Humabara).

During Humabon's reign, the region had become an important trading cter. The harbors of Sugbo became known colloquially as sinibuayng hingpit (the place for trading), shorted to sibu or sibo (to trade), from which the modern name Cebu originates.

According to the Aginid, this was the period in which Lapulapu (as Lapulapu Dimantag) was first recorded as arriving from Borneo (Sabah). He asked Humabon for a place to settle, and the king offered him the region of Mandawili (now Mandaue), including the island known as Opong (or Opon), hoping that Lapulapu's people would cultivate the land. They were successful in this, and the influx of farm produce from Mandawili riched the trade port of Sugbo further.

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The relationship betwe Lapulapu and Humabon later deteriorated wh Lapulapu turned to piracy. He began raiding merchant ships passing the island of Opong, affecting trade in Sugbo. The island thus earned the name Mangatang (those who lie in wait), later evolving to Mactan.

Lapulapu was one of the two datus of Mactan before the Spanish arrived in the archipelago, the other being Zula, both of whom belong to the Maginoo class. Wh Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in the service of Spain, Zula was one of those who gave tribute to the Spanish king while Lapulapu refused.

In the midnight of April 27, 1521, Magellan led a force of around 60 Spaniards and 20 to 30 war boats (karakoa) of Humabon's warriors from Cebu. They arrived in Mactan three hours before dawn. However, because of the presce of rock outcroppings and coral reefs, Magellan's ships could not land on the shores of Mactan. Their ships were forced to anchor two crossbow flights away from the beach. According to Antonio Pigafetta, they faced around 1, 500 warriors of Lapulapu armed with iron swords,

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Magellan repeated his offer not to attack them if Lapulapu swore fealty to Rajah Humabon, obeyed the Spanish king, and paid tribute, which Lapulapu again rejected. At the taunting request of Lapulapu, the battle did not begin until morning. Magellan, perhaps hoping to impress Humabon's warriors with the superiority of European armor and weapons, told Humabon's warriors to remain in their ships. Magellan and 49 of the heavily armored Spaniards (armed with lances, swords, crossbows, and muskets) waded ashore to meet Lapulapu's forces. They set fire to a few houses on the shore in an attempt to scare them. Instead, Lapulapu's warriors became infuriated and charged. Two Spaniards were killed immediately in the fighting, and Magellan was wounded in the leg with a poisoned arrow. He ordered a retreat, which most of his m followed except for a few who remained to protect him. However, he was recognized as the captain by the natives, whereupon he became the focus of the attack. Outnumbered and cumbered by their armor, Magellan's forces were quickly overwhelmed. Magellan and several of his m were killed, and the rest escaped to the waiting ships.

The historian William Hry Scott believes that Lapulapu's hostility may have be the result of a mistak assumption by Magellan. Magellan assumed that ancit Filipino society was structured in the same way as European society (i.e. with royalty ruling over a region). While