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- Joanga or juanga is Spanish for "junk". It can also refer to other large native ships in Southeast Asia, including: Djong (ship), a large trading ship...
- A juanga or joanga refers to large-sized kora-kora, karakoa and lanong. They are used all throughout the Philippines and Eastern Indonesia, in Maluku smaller...
- Boholanos. He succeeded with his plans by covertly sending his twenty joangas to Bohol one by one deceitfully saying that "they are traders attending...
- karakoa, which could carry hundreds of rowers and warriors, were known as joangas (also spelled juangas) by the Spanish. Panday Piray of Pampanga, Philippines...
- auxiliary force vessel from Historia de las islas e indios de Bisayas (1668), this warship were known as joangas (also spelled juangas) by the Spanish....
- against raids as well as for forays. Large kora-kora is called juanga or joanga. The origin of the name is unknown, but it has been proposed that it may...
- people. Like the karakoa, large lanong were also known by the Spanish as joanga or juanga (Spanish for "junk"), a name which was also applied to other large...
- punishment for abusing one of the concubines. For revenge, Ternate sent twenty joangas disguised as friendly traders with the aide of Portuguese artillery and...
- of the concubines. Thus, in 1563, the Ternatans attacked Bohol. Twenty joangas deceitfully posing as traders were sent by the sultan of Ternate to attack...
- Pampangos would give him obedience, as in fact they did." These boats were joangas (karakoa), a type of seacraft capable of carrying 300 men each, which,...