What is your Preferred name of the Philippines

[kasumigenx]

What is your preferred name of the Philippines

Katagalugan/Selurong(Seludong/Saludong alt. spellings in Malay)
In context, Malay Historians use to call Luzon as Selurong while Moro historians refer to the people of Luzon as Tagalogs so basically in the same context, Katagalugan = Selurong, it is the preferred name of Bonifacio in the Philippines and the Majapahit and Ancient Malays called Luzon as Selurong.

Maharlika
The name Preferred by Ferdinand Marcos.

Philippines or Filipinas
the OTL name.

[Max Sinister]

I've been wondering... which name did the Chinese of old times use for them?

This Quora thread claims it was something like "Lusong".

[American hist]

It is easier to pronounce the Philippines,but since it’s an alternative history I pick the first one. Didn’t Spanish call their holdings the Spanish East Indies?

[kasumigenx]

Another possible name is Tanjungnagara/Tanjungnegara.

In Kakawin Nagarakretagama, the Sultanate of Sulu is referred to as Solot, one of the countries in the Tanjungnagara archipelago (Kalimantan-Philippines), which is one of the areas that is under the influence of the mandala area of the Majapahit kingdom in the archipelago.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Sulu

[lordroel]

Oct 29, 2022 18:17:41 GMT kasumigenx said:

Another possible name is Tanjungnagara.

Not something that rolls easily of my tong.