Place:Eastern Samar, Eastern Visayas, Philippines

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NameEastern Samar
Alt namesSamar Orientalsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates11.667°N 125.5°E
Located inEastern Visayas, Philippines
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Culasi
San Policarpio
Municipality
Arteche
Balangiga
Balangkayan
Borongan
Can-avid
Dolores
General MacArthur
Giporlos
Guiuan
Hernani
Jipapad
Lawaan
Llorente
Maslog
Maydolong
Mercedes
Oras
Quinapondan
Salcedo
San Julian
San Policarpo
Sulat
Taft
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Eastern Samar (Waray-Waray: Sinirangan Samar; ) is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Borongan. Eastern Samar occupies the eastern portion of the island of Samar. Bordering the province to the north is the province of Northern Samar and to the west is Samar province. To the east lies the Philippine Sea, part of the vast Pacific Ocean, while to the south lies the Leyte Gulf.

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History

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Colonial period

During his circumnavigation of the globe, Ferdinand Magellan had set foot on the tiny island of Homonhon in the southern part of the province. On March 16, 1521, the area of what is now Eastern Samar is said to be the first Philippine landmass spotted by Magellan and his crew.

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Philippine-American War

Maj. Eugenio Daza Area Commander of General Lukbán's forces for Southeastern Samar

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Balangiga Encounter

On September 28, 1901, Filipino guerrillas led by Valeriano Abanador and Eugenio Daza in Balangiga ambushed American troops, killing 48 members of the US 9th Infantry. The incident triggered the infamous American retaliation March across Samar against the Samar populace and guerrillas.[1]

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World War II

In 1944, combined Filipino-American troops involved in the liberation of the Philippines from Japan built in the town of Guiuan the largest military base in the Pacific. In the same town in 1949, approximately 5,000 Russian refugees escaping from communist China temporarily settled on Tubabao Island until 1951, when they were transferred to Australia and the United States.[2]

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Independent province

Eastern Samar, as a province, was created from Samar province through Republic Act No. 4221 on June 19, 1965. Congressmen Eladio T. Balite (1st Dist. Samar), Fernando R. Veloso (2nd Dist. Samar), and Felipe J. Abrigo (3rd Dist. Samar), authored Republic Act 4221 which was approved by Congress in 1963. The law, ratified in a plebiscite on June 19, 1965, divided Samar into three: Northern Samar, Eastern Samar and (Western) Samar.

Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded, made its first landfall in the coastal town of Guiuan in November 2013.

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