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Hispanic settlement and rule (1521–1898)[edit]
Tipos del País works by Justiniano Asuncion
The Philippines was settled by the Spanish. The arrival of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães) in 1521 began a period of European colonization. During the period of Spanish colonialism the Philippines was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was governed and controlled from Mexico City. Early Spanish settlers were mostly explorers, soldiers, government officials and religious missionaries born in Spain and Mexico. Most Spaniards who settled were of Basque ancestry,[93] but there were also settlers of Andalusian, Catalan, and Moorish descent.[94] The Peni
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