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Magellan arrived in the Philippines on March 16,1521 but it was unnamed until Ruy Lopez De Villalobos arrived into the country and eventually named the islands of leyte and samar Las Islas Filipinas (The Philippine Islands) in the name of Prince Philip II of Spain and the turned to Philippines

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