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<font size=5>'''[[Zamboanga City, Philippines|Zamboanga City]]'''</font> | <font size=5>'''[[Zamboanga City, Philippines|Zamboanga City]]'''</font> | ||
[[Image:Zamboanga charter 1936signing.jpg|left|150px|thumb|<center>Signing of the<br>Zamboanga City Charter<br> Octorber 12, 1936</center>]] | [[Image:Zamboanga charter 1936signing.jpg|left|150px|thumb|<center>Signing of the<br>Zamboanga City Charter<br> Octorber 12, 1936</center>]] | ||
*Founded 13th and 14th Centuries | *Founded 13th and 14th Centuries | ||
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"Soon, the construction of one of the finest and most important Spanish forts in the East was put into effect. Upon careful choice of locating the fort at the southern-most tip of the peninsula for its military vantage point of the main water routes that converges in what's called today the Basilan Straights, the foundation of the grand fortress of Fuerza de San José was laid by Father Melchor de Vera, a Jesuit priest and engineer of the Spanish army, on June 23, 1635, establishing a permanent Spanish presence here brick-by-brick.2 Zamboanga City, as we know it today, was thus born.[http://www.zamboanga.com/history/history_zamboanga.htm]" | "Soon, the construction of one of the finest and most important Spanish forts in the East was put into effect. Upon careful choice of locating the fort at the southern-most tip of the peninsula for its military vantage point of the main water routes that converges in what's called today the Basilan Straights, the foundation of the grand fortress of Fuerza de San José was laid by Father Melchor de Vera, a Jesuit priest and engineer of the Spanish army, on June 23, 1635, establishing a permanent Spanish presence here brick-by-brick.2 Zamboanga City, as we know it today, was thus born.[http://www.zamboanga.com/history/history_zamboanga.htm]" | ||
*Established as [http://www.zamboanga.com/news/Charter_of_Zamboanga_City_October_12_1936_Commonwealth_Act_Number_39.htm Chartered City]: October 12, 1936 | *Established as [http://www.zamboanga.com/news/Charter_of_Zamboanga_City_October_12_1936_Commonwealth_Act_Number_39.htm Chartered City]: October 12, 1936 | ||