Among those Filipinas Islands is one called Mindanao which is more than one hundred leguas long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Letters to Mindanao is disappointed over the government response to the bombings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Philippines: Bomb scare grips the country] Reference

Now he is one of the most known guerrilla leaders in Southern Mindanao and the most wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davao Today] Reference

Years earlier he had been linked by local police to Moro guerrillas, and was thrown out of Zamboanga College, in Mindanao, where he had studied criminology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihadists in Paradise] Reference

Philippines - Government soldiers in Southern Mindanao will take off the warrior's cloak and instead actively participate in peace-building and conflict resolution efforts, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Cotabato LGU to review ban on open-pit mining] Reference

Mindanao, which is one of the more disadvantaged areas of the Philippines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Assistance for Philippines Drought] Reference

The earthquake was located in Moro Gulf, Mindanao, which is 85 miles (136 km) southwest of.    From Wordnik.com.  [KI Media] Reference

Romblon; and to the south the island of Mindanao, which is almost as large as that of Luzon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

The highest mountain is Apo, in Mindanao, which is 10,400 feet high, and there are others of 9,000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference

From the city of Çubu one has to sail southeast to reach the nearest point of Mindanao, which is called Dapitan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

I got a discount because the muslim vendor recognized my family name and we chatted about Marawi City and Lake Lanao in Mindanao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference

Wowowee = Robin Padilla (idol) - "Mindanao" = 5/26/10.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Cotabato LGU to review ban on open-pit mining] Reference

Wowowee = Robin Padilla (idol) - "Mindanao" = 5/26/10 another great performance of Robin Padilla (idol).    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Cotabato LGU to review ban on open-pit mining] Reference

Mindanao lay to the west and south, vast, mysterious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

The "war" in Mindanao is not Filipino versus Filipino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing The New Spain] Reference

(Al-Ghozi was killed by soldiers in Mindanao last October.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To Peace] Reference

Carpenter, -- America has sent some of her best into Mindanao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Was this to be our last fight in the desolate island of Mindanao?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference

So far, though, he has only been making the war worse on Mindanao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference

Magellan called at several islands, among them Mindanao and Cebú.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

NPR's Michael Sullivan went to the southern province of Mindanao to find out.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Of World's Top Boxers Runs For Philippines Seat] Reference

Mindanao; and among the troops sent with him were the companies of the rival lieutenants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference

Alone at the rail on the dingy promenade Terry stood enjoying his first glimpse of Mindanao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

How about interviewing Mindanao-based rebels about their plans to secede from the Philippines?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manila Media Attack] Reference

The Negritos of Panay, Negros, and Mindanao are also to be regarded as pure to a large extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negritos of Zambales] Reference

Three times in 10 pages, she refers to the island of Mindanao as the main home of Muslims in the Philippines.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Tenth Parallel,' Eliza Griswold's book on Christianity and Islam] Reference

In Mindanao they are found only in the extreme northern part of Surigao, not having been reported below Tago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negritos of Zambales] Reference

President Joseph Estrada has taken on the Muslim rebels of Mindanao as perhaps only a former action-movie hero could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference

Mindanao fastnesses and ended in a dim horizon where pink-blue of sky melted into the misted billows of distant hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Only seven months into his six-year term, Estrada's Mindanao policy has been to make each blooper bigger than the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference

In the mountains of Jolo and Mindanao are wild cannibals, who would kill and eat a white man should he be found in their midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference

By the time quiet was restored, there were 32 soldiers dead on both sides, and 80,000 civilians had fled their homes on Mindanao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference

Next to Luzon, on which the city of Manila is situated, Mindanao is the largest of all the islands of the Philippine archipelago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference

Their ranks include veterans of the Afghan war, and they control two self-contained communities on Mindanao where Islamic law prevails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference

With regard to the May 15 article on Mindanao ( "A Rebellion With a Cause"), the problem is not turning into a Muslim-Christian conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing The New Spain] Reference