EVOLUTION OF THE ARMED CONFLICT ON THE MORO FRONT * Both Spanish and American colonial regimes had to contend with small but fiercely independent sovereign nation-states (sultanates) of the main Moro ethnolinguistic tribes. Islam had arrived in Sulu in the last quarter of the 13th century and the Sulu sultanate was established in 1451, more than a century before the start of the Spanish period in 1565. The Spanish colonial period was marked by bitter Spanish-Moro wars (the so-called “Moro Wars”) fought in six stages spanning four centuries. The colonialists called the Muslim natives “Moros” after their hated enemy, the “Moors,” who had previously ruled Spain for eight centuries. The Spaniards fostered Christianized indio (Filipino) prejudice against Moros through such cultural institutions as the “moromoro” plays.
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