Madya-as

Madya-as was a legendary confederacy of datus on Panay in the Visayas. According to the Maragtas tradition, Datu Puti and other migrants from Borneo obtained coastal land from the Ati chief Marikudo.

The tradition places these events around 1212, a date historians doubt; the confederacy itself rests on oral tradition rather than contemporary documents. Its settlements were said to have endured into the Spanish period. In 1569 Miguel López de Legazpi moved the Spanish camp from Cebu to Panay to escape Portuguese attacks. The settlements later became centres of Iloilo, Capiz and Antique.