21st

Century
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

LANAO DEL SUR

MAGUINDANAO
BASILAN

SULU

TAWI-TAWI
ARMM Literature
was an autonomous region in the Philippines, located
in the Mindanao Island group of the Philippines, that
consisted of five predominantly Muslim provinces:
Basilan (except Isabela city), Lanao del Sur, Sulu,
Maguindanao and Tawi-Tawi.
ARMM History
The history of the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindnao (ARMM) can only be understood in the
context of how the Bangsamoro people
continuously struggle for self-rule and self-
determination and how the national politics
address the “Moro problem.” The ARMM today
underwent a series of structural and systemic
modifications, starting from the regional
regroupings in 1975 up to the expansion of the
regional government in 2002.
 Leonor Orosa-Goqauingco

Famous People
Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat

also spelled Qudarat or Corallat

was a Sultan Maguindanao. During his

reign, he successfully opposed
the Spaniards who attempted to conquer
his land and hindered the Christianization of
the island of Mindanao.
Leonor Orosa-Goqauingco
was a 1976 Filipino national artist in creative
dance. She could play the piano, draw, design
scenery and costumes, sculpt, act, direct, dance
and choreograph.

Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was

known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater
Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts
Critics.
Famous Places
 the longest river
in Mindanao and the
second largest in
the Philippines. Its
320 kilometer journey
starts somewhere
near Butuan City as
the Pulangi River then
joins with
the Kabacan River
before emptying into
Rio Grande de the Moro Gulf through
Mindanao Cotabato City.
 Sitangkai
an island in Tawi-
Tawi, Philippines known
as the 'Venice of the East'
for its houses that are built
on stilts above water
Bulingan Falls
a majestic falls in Basilan, Philippines
Maranao Epic, The Darangen
The Darangen is an ancient folk epic of the Maranao,
predating Islamization in the Philippines. It originates
from the Maranao term, darang, meaning to narrate in
the form of song or chant. Unlike other epics, the
Darangen demands that it be sung rather than read. It
is composed of an archaic Maranao vocabulary and
possibly with Sanskrit origins due to the phonological
and semantic similarities.
Darangen Author

There is no single author of the Darangen.

Rather, the people believe that it was passed
down by their forebears from Bembran, the
principal locale of the story.