Cebu

Cebu, or Sugbu, was an Indianised port-kingdom on Cebu island in the Visayas, centred on Singhapala. Tradition traced its ruling line to Sri Lumay, a prince from Sumatra; in the fourteenth century it traded with China, Java and Sumatra.

In 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reached Cebu under Rajah Humabon, but was killed at Mactan. Humabon's successor Rajah Tupas was defeated by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1565, and the kingdom was absorbed into the Spanish Philippines.