Namayan

Namayan Sapa • Lamayan
before the 11th century–1571
A map of Namayan (colored pink) under the rule of Lakantagkan. Locations like Dibag, Pinacauasan and Yamagtogon are missing. The location of Meycatmon and Calatondongan are unclear.
Status	Precolonial barangay[1] under the house[2] of Lakantagkan[1]: 193
Capital	Namayan, Mandaluyong or Sapa
Common languages	Old Tagalog, Old Malay
Government	Feudalism under barangay state led by the house of Lakantagkan[2][1][3]
History
• Established	before the 11th century
• Conquest by Spain	1571
Currency	"Piloncitos" and gold rings[4]
Succeeded by Captaincy General of the Philippines Manila (province)
Today part of	Philippines

Namayan, in pre-colonial times variously mentioned as Sapa, Maysapan or Nasapan; was an ancient Kingdom on the banks of the Pasig River in the Philippines, that flourished between the 11th and 14th centuries, and continued to be inhabited until the arrival of European colonizers in the 1570s.

Namayan was one of three major kingdoms which dominated the upper eastern side of the Pasig River running along the coast of Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines.^[5] Its capital was Sapa, what is now Santa Ana, Manila. The kingdom's territory reached present-day Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay, as far as the lakeside town of Taytay, Rizal, spanning an area approximately the size of modern Metropolitan Manila (246.5 square miles).

Formed as a polity occupying several ancient Barangay states,^[2] it was one of several such polities through the Pasig River just prior to the Spanish conquest of the Philippines, alongside the kingdom of ancient Tondo, the Rajahnate of ancient Maynila, and the polity of ancient Cainta.^[1][6]

See also: Santa Ana, Manila

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Cite error: The named reference Scott1994 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Cite error: The named reference Huerta was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
3. ↑ Joaquin, Nick. Manila My Manila: A History for the Young. City Government of Manila. Manila: 1990.
4. ↑ Cite error: The named reference OcampoPiloncitos was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
5. ↑ The Kingdom of Namayan | The Bulwagan Foundation Trust
6. ↑ Odal-Devora, Grace (2000). The River Dwellers, in Book Pasig : The River of Life (Edited by Reynaldo Gamboa Alejandro and Alfred A. Yuson). Unilever Philippines. pp. 43–66.