![]() ![]() Some barangays were well-organized independent villages, consisting of thirty to a hundred households. ![]() These sociopolitical units were sometimes also referred to as barangay states, but are more properly referred to using the technical term " polity", rather than "state", so they are usually simply called "barangays", but evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as a type of "city states" ruled by datus, rajahs and lakans and sultans. The term originally referred to both a house on land and a boat on water, containing families, friends and dependents. In early Philippine history, barangay is the term historically used by scholars to describe the complex sociopolitical units : 4–6 which were the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago in the period immediately before the arrival of European colonizers. ![]()
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