The TAGALOG version of this video will be posted tomorrow! Tune in 😉

Saying that philippines used to be called the kingdom of maharlika is like saying japan used to be called the kingdom of samurai.

Yesss! This "Maharlika kingdom" has recently bugs all over the social media spreading misinformation about our history. As a student of history, Hindi din ako naniniwala and not even taught in our Univ. Thank you for this vifeo! More power po✨

The idea of Maharlika "nation" was a concoction of Marcos. A figment of his imagination, and an attempt to revise PH history. It's your "duty" as a historian to debunk this fantasy. All the best.

I really love and like myth debunking videos or documentaries that debunk long-believed myths, legends, stories, misconceptions, misinformation, fake news, theories, and conspiracy theories. There are a lot of these that should be addressed about the Philippines aside from this Maharlika Kingdom stuff, like the Philippines being the Biblical Land of Ophir or the Land of Gold; the Philippines as part, a remnant, an offshoot, or a portion of the lost continent of Lemuria in the Indian Ocean or Pacific Ocean, or as a refuge or new home to its descendants; Jose Rizal as the Grimm Reaper; Jose Rizal as the Father of Adolf Hitler; the entire Philippines being owned by a single family, rich family, rich clan, or historical clan or family; the Philippines as an entire Islamic nation, or all of its ancient political units, polities, kingdoms, and early governments being all Islamic or professing Islam in the precolonial times or era; Lapulapu being a Muslim or a Muslim leader; and the Philippines and Filipinos as a prophecized and specially, divinely, or heavenly blessed, chosen, and or annointed nation and people by God as written in the Bible or any other religious books; and many other...

I hope our history books teach us more about our pre colonial past

32 people disliked, still can't believe Maharlika/Ophir or whatever bullshit do not exist

Thank you for explaining the falsehood of the Maharlika Kingdom theory. It's a shame that actual polities such as Tondo, Cabaloan, and Sulu are forgotten for this myth.

Your blogs are very informative. My school subject in philippine history had never taught us what you have been discussing about the philippines. Old people like me has a lot to learn about our own country’s history and roots. All the colonial powers who occupied us had done a good job of making us ignorant of our own history and roots. You are a good example to the Filipino youth. Our youth should research and learn about the true history of our country. So much has been hidden from us Filipinos.

The Philippines or the islands that make up the territory and lands of what today is called the Philippines/ Pilipinas/ Filipinas has been ruled by a lot of civilized kingdoms, rajahnates, sultanates, lakanates, baranggays/barangays, and other polities or political units, and not ruled under a unified, united, and single or lone kingdom named after just a Tagalog free and common warrior class. That's what I usually say to people who were blinded by misconceptions and misinformation of this conspiracy theory, belief, myth, legend, urban legend, theory, idea, or historical shenanigan. I am not a historian, archeologist, nor anthropologist or any social scientist , but I rather believe in a sadder and uninteresting story of my history and identity but closer to the truth of the real past than to a beautiful, uplifting, blissful, more interesting, compelling, and believable story of my past and identity but is just a well-written fairytale that never happened. Myths, stories, fairytales, folk tales, epics, legends, and other related literature are all important parts or elements of our identity and culture, should be treasured and preserved, should be studied and appreciated, and should be valued and respected, but they shouldn't be seen as history. No one really knows what happened in the past or the details of it except those who lived in the different moments and times of the past, but history and its academic, social scientific, humanistic, and scholarlt studies, is our way of writing, rewriting, telling, or retelling the past relying on what we currently know now based on reliable sources, records, writings, literature, and artefacts that we have, whether in their abundance (like our recent history) or their scarcity (like our pre-colonial history). We, like other countries who were under colonialism and or imperialism, unfortunately may have historical biases in our history that were mostly or all written in the perspective of colonialists, colonizers, imperialists, or conquistadors, and sadly we have limited, scarce, or no elements or parts in our history that are written in the perspective of the people who were colonized, conquered, or subdued. Also, most to all of our history were not written on metals, stones, rocks, and other materials that can more or less last through time, and sadly some to most of our history were ruined, destroyed, and burned down. The Philippines is not alone in this sad reality.

Kirby, your knowledge about history really astonishing me.... Great job....

The word Maharika is still used as a name of a person in Indonesia especially Javanese name Bhre.

Thank you for beautiful history of the Philippines 👍

Your passion is so apparent! Thank you for teaching me!

It was Spain who unified the Philippines Not some Tagalog superstate.n

AAAHHHH SAY IT LOUDER!!! IM SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOK SALAMZ

02:30 The Kapampangan word 'Mardika' has the same meaning with Indonesian and Malay word 'Merdeka', meaning freedom 😁. The word is included in the second last stanza of Indonesian national anthem: "Indonesia raya, merdeka merdeka, bangsaku rakyatku yang ku cinta" Meaning "O Great Indonesia, freedom freedom, my country my people that I love"

It is a good thing you have tell the truth. People should be careful on what they believe in.

Thank you for teaching my roots! I'm half Filipino but my Father never taught me how to speak Tagalog or better yet his own dialect Bisaya.. As he grew up in less fortunate, violent province on Panay Island. I appreciate the history lessons I never got Kuya Kirby! Love from New Zealand!

I just thought that maharlika was a name for the noble peoples of the philippines.

Thank you so much for this info 👊🏽

Kuya! Can you do a video on the history of the comfort gays?

Maharlika is a description of a social class. Like Maharlika, Alipin, etc. Not a name of country.

Haist Bakit kung sino pa yung nagpapakalat ng real history siya pa yung kaunting views :(. This is an underrated channel, it gives us a quality information so I hope it will get more views and subscribers in the future.

Wow.. loud and clear😘😘😍😍

Can you make history on the life of ms josephine bracken

Great content.

Thank you for the information. Hopefully, this myth come to an end. That being said, could you provide references for this video we viewers could read? Thank you and padayon!

This needs more views

Thank you for watching ❤️🙏

In maranaw language the old people says ; myaka-maradika they are freed and in Tagalog lumaya (freed) They are freed … in our maranaw language “maradika” means freedom

I'm always distracted with the hand gestures but interesting video. So insightful.

Very very informative! Hope my video para sa mga ancient Kingdoms of the Philippines.

Ancient javanese: "Mahardika". Modern javanese: "Mardika". Malay/indonesian:"Merdeka". Engliah: "Freedom"

Makasaysayan araw sa'yo Abeng Kirby. I'm Anztrell Dela Cruz from Nueva Ecija. I'm tracing back to my Kapampangan roots. Yes, my ancestors are Ilokano and Kapampangan. My dad told me that my grandma, named Juliana Taruc-Dela Cruz was a distant relative to Luis Taruc of San Luis, Pampanga. The Supremo of HUKBALAHAP. I'd done some of my research much I need more. Could you enlighted me on this? Dakal pung salamat Abe!

Thanks for stating facts. :)

Can i suggest the history of Boxer codex of Manila.

Great content, I just subbed today! By the way, for those who are blinded by the myth. The ruling class is called the "Maginoos".

Salamat 👌👌✔️

Sir kirby, I think he made that in order to morale up the filipinos to do something

Yes! More fact-checking and myth-debunking please! Air everything out that even a grade 4 will understand.

Kingdom of Caboloan Sir. Next content nyo po. Pls. 🙏🙏

Next yung kay Princess Urduja po.

Hi sir more power to you po. I hope in the future you put the sources in the description box. Para ipahiya natin yung mga "vlogger historian" kuno na kung ano ano lang sinasabi na wala namang scientific basis at nagrerely lang sa shock and awe value ng videos nila.

Why is it that the historians said that the destiny of the Philippines is found in her name?

Maharlika is not real people. We do no make history out of imagination. We make it by living through times and living it till today.

Finally!!!! ganda ng explanation mo. i will recommend this video to my viewers para magspread further ung truth

As an English teacher who loves and also teaches Philippine History; I thank you for informing the misinformed people of our country who still believes that there is such a kingdom that exist with that name. Why exhaust themselves researching "kuno" on things that does not exist and not focus on rather something great like the "Kingdom of Tondo" which actually existed? But was this so called "Maharlika Kingdom" related to Marcos' propaganda just like his movie? I just wonder. Thanks if someone will answer.

FINALLY! Someone said it! Dakal salamat!

Can you tell about the descendants of Rizal?

Hai sir enjoy watching Request naman my record ba tayo about queen or princess name nung pre colonial period

MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHY WE HAVE: 1) TREATY OF PARIS, 2) GENEVA CONVENTION

Any update on what was the name of Philippine before Aka Philippine

the only real true kingdom that dominated SEA would be Srivijaya, its successor states, its future enemies, and the Sultanate of Brunei.

Yes! This! Philippines isn’t a unified state until the Americans! Nor a unified nation until the signing of national language! We do have great evidence of that, frim the varied dialects, cultures, and mythis of each people-group in the Philippines, and it always fascinates me to a very large extent! Thanks for clearing this up! As an amateur historian and a novelist, I thank you for clearing the misconceptions! Have a good one and a new sub! Mabuhay!

I'm new subscriber here, salamat po sa mga eye opener na history patungkol sa mahal kong inang bayan.

In my opinion, we should balance our understanding about our history. When someone said Kingdom of Maharlika I believed, did not represent as one nation but one roots or origin. That origin of people spread on every island where they live and established their own group leader, belief, ethnicity and culture. Their beautiful way of living has been distracted when the Western people started to invade and force them to believed on different culture and traditions. I would say Read Antonio Pigafetta's book to learn more about Precolonial era. Why is it the original inhabitants face the sky and called God ABBA, Why there are names Cagayan De Oro? (River of Gold). That did not simply put named CDO and no origin.

Hindi ko tuloy mai share at kaming mga magkakaibigan ay mahihirapan na intindihin. Salamat po!!!!!!

New subscriber is waving.....😊😊😊😊

Sir, Kirby. I know this is not the best place to post a topic. But, if martial law was part of history then can you shed some light on how this event came to unfold. With time stamp of every important incident that occur before martial law. I wish this comment will be recognised. and , please dont put any personal comments. thank u

Atseng kirby galing mo mag research.

Eto dapat pinapanood ng mga kabataan.

share natin guys!

If Philippines needs to be renamed as Maharlika, so Turkey needs to be renamed as Ottoman

Yeah my brother greatest IM from Java

If someone unified the philippines it would be the spanish.

I'm here because a someone with lack of information says Maharlika empire is true and I'm here to prove him wrong

Maharlikans are almost the equivalent of jizamurai class or lower class samurai. Of feudal japan.

I prefer LuzViMinda to Philippines as a name for our modern republic. They were separate Island groups. and in the past separate kingdoms and societies.

When I first encounter this one, I was only 1st college student, with only small knowledge of repetitive teachings of history (ya know the Spanish and American colonialism, and short pre-colonial era (the aeta, the indones, and the malay)), so when I read this I actually believed it, until someone edited the wikipedia about this Maharlika kingdom, and someone left a message there that, almost something similar to this: Maharlika kingdom is not real, please don't believe anything that is written about this topic. I was like whuuuu, and then I was introduced to REAL KINGDOMS OF THE PHILIPPINES, so I decided to study that instead.

Listen to a true , 2 angel of voice of marcoses...maam rita gadi.. and maam cherry cobarrubias..

Pwede kba gumawa ng video about the sabah.

Yes i like to listen the history of our ancestors and of our lands, more of history pls mr araullo ang gwapo mo

Too spicy narrative Maharlika , unbelievable legend.

Finally a real historian debunks that garbage misinformation

The Maharlikans and the Opherians are people who think the universe revolves around the Philippines. Ophir could be a great name for a province in Encantadia. Mga pashnea!

Finally! Enough of those hoaxes

Pakisabi kay RODRIGO bago niya palitan ang pangalan ng BANSA natin palitan niya muna PANGALAN NIYA kasi Spanish name po ang RODRIGO

Sana may "Debunking Philippine Myths" series huhuhu Maitanong ko lang po: Tunay/Sino po ba ang Tallino family?

I like how you bravely and finally break this Maharlika BS

There was mataram kingdom the chola the sri Vijaya empire... Sorry no maharlika kingdom. No.gold given to a previous Philippine president

Can you cover the Barong Tagalog myth where the Spanish supposedly made us wear it a certain way?

As an almost marcos loyalist (unironically) i dont think maharlika exists and neither does ophir 🤷‍♂️

Marcos gold was the Yamashita gold found by Roger Roxas in the mountain of Baguio before Marshall law but Marcos PSG took control of the treasures from Roxas. He filed suit in Hawaii and won.

Naku po..

who else found this accidently because of the mecha ttrpg?

What I learned from kuya Kirby A.:The 'kingdom' is a myth because maharlika in Luzo..nes (?) now Luzon is a forgotten class, the free warriors who serve their lord or datu (for me they're equivalent to government soldiers today). But the Word Maharlika is not a myth, it's somewhat universal for a certain type of social class around the world. Tama po ba? Hmm.. I wonder if Republic of Maharlika is a rational name instead of what some people have created, the term kingdom of maharlika. To those who can't stand the 'philippines' sometimes. But I also wonder how Heneral Luna or Macario Sakay thought about it too..they must have not like the term at some point but they had to use it to communicate..

How about this will you debunk this KZfaq channel god's culture about the philippin s is the Ophir is that related to maharlika kingdom?

I unlike ko sana thinking it was another political propaganda spreading maharlika myth.

Ito yung mga videos na kapag nagskip ka ng ads, nahihiya ka kasi alam mong pinaghirapan ng creator lahat lahat ng napapapakinggan at napapanood mo. Takot na tuloy akong magkamali pati mga tuldok o comma haha Kuya Kirby, sana magkita tayo minsan sa Pampanga! Yung mga tipong conference eme, ganun. Sabihan mo kami ha.

There is no Maharlika Kingdom. Although what most of us don't know is that we are part of the Madjapahit Empire, it is widely discussed by our legislators in framing the 1935 constitution.

I have a feeling na sa side nina Marcos to galing tong 'maharlika story nato'..an effert to clear his name of the 'ill-gotten wealth' na kesho he owned golds even before becoming president

"mAhArLiKa haS hEbrEw oRigIn" "oPhiR wAs tHe OG nAme" "tAgEan tAlLaNo gOlD" said the ones who believed in conspirash*t theories wandering here. _Ahem!_ Let me explain: FIRST OF ALL, the "maharlika" thing is a social class. The word "maharlika" comes from the sanskrit word "Maharddhika", which means "free" or "free people". What was the respondent trying to imply is that we are originated from the hebrew or hebraic tribes. The reality is - we're originated from the austronesian ethnics and from sanskrit speaking buddies/Indo-aryans. SECOND, there is no evidence that we are "ophir". Even we are rich of gold during the old times, we must not assume that our country is "ophir" in the Bible. In the Bible, Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. (1 Kings 22:48) The "Tharshish" occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (modern Lebanon) and the Land of Israel. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. The same place-name occurs in the Akkadian inscriptions of Esarhaddon (the Assyrian king, d. 669 BC) and also on the Phoenician inscription of the Nora Stone in Sardinia; its precise location was never commonly known, and was eventually lost in antiquity. Legends grew up around it over time so that its identity has been the subject of scholarly research and commentary for more than two thousand years. In short, there are suggestions that it's anywhere in the Mediterranean Sea. However, how a ship from Mediterranean Sea can go to Asia and get back without losing yourself into the middle of nowhere? Well, the "Ophir" thing remained a mystery. Even just right now, I'm still thinking if the Ophir was "Mali" or somewhere just near or not so far from the Mediterranean Sea, but there's no assurance that the Ophir was Mali or was Philippines or was it the Axum in the horn of Africa or any defunct countries or existing nations. THIRD, I'm so confused. Were the Marcos golds from the Tagean-Tallano or from King Solomon, or they just got some golds from somewhere in the mineshafts of Cordillera mountains? The "Tagean-Tallano" thingy sounds like kinda Spanish. It's kinda way impossible to have such surname if you're from Polynesia or from an Austronesian ethnics or from Indo-aryans. Well, imagine, using the Bible just for a damn political agenda. This is why the separation of church and state is important.

We are maharlikann in general or free people before colonization. Tama ka its not a country but a collective of ethnicities or tribes..

Can you debunk other well known myths such as the moon rover stuff

Maharlika...has a prime class....a free society....a golden blood...yes not royal blood.

there is no maharlika, maharlika is a class of rich village owners who owns a number of ulipon

kuya , can I ask a question?? what is the real name of our country ?? The Philippines..

MAHARLIKA/MAHARDIKA/MERDEKA/FREEDOM ,

MAHARLIKA .suggested name ..name of country for Philippines... MAHARLOKO and MAHARLOKA citizen of Maharlika... great name