Ma-i

Ma-i was a Philippine trading polity known to Chinese records. Scholars place it either on Mindoro, once called Mait, or at Bay on Laguna de Bay. Chinese merchants exchanged porcelain, iron pots and glass beads for cotton, beeswax and tortoiseshell at an official plaza.

The Daoyi Zhilue of 1349 described fertile fields and houses along both banks of a stream; Chinese records then fell silent. The fourteenth-century Nanhai zhi reported a Bruneian invasion or rule. Mindoro was raided by Brunei in 1498 and conquered by the Spanish under Legazpi in 1570 and 1571.