Dapitan

Dapitan, also called Bool, was a maritime polity centred on Panglao and the Dauis-Mansasa shore of Bohol, between Cebu and Butuan. Its people spoke Tagalog and traded by sea.

Under the brothers Dailisan and Pagbuaya, its canals and stilt houses earned it the name Venice of the Visayas. By 1563 Ternate had turned against Bohol: twenty joangas disguised as traders attacked with Portuguese guns, killing Dailisan. Pagbuaya led his people to northern Mindanao and founded Dapitan; the chief Pedro Manuel Manooc joined the Spanish capture of Manila in 1570.