Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Ma-i or Maidh (also spelled Ma'i, Mai, Ma-yi or Mayi; Chinese: 麻逸; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: má it) was a sovereign Prehispanic Philippine state, notable for having established trade relations with the Kingdom of Brunei, and with Song and Ming Dynasty China.For many years, scholars believed that this state was likely on the island of Mindoro. But recent scholarship casts doubt on this theory, arguing that historical descriptions better match Bay, Laguna (whose name is pronounced Ba-i), which once ruled over a vast territory on the eastern coasts of Laguna de Bay. Another suggested location is Malolos, Bulacan. However, these suggested locations in Southern Luzon are called in the Zhu Fan Zhi as Pu-li-lu (Pulilan), a place inhabited by "thieves and robbers."Its existence was recorded both in the Chinese Imperial annals Zhu Fan Zhi (諸番志) and History of Song and in the royal records Sultanate of Brunei, which refer to it as the nation of Maidh. Mangyans or aboriginals in Mindoro call it Maidh or Ma-it.These Chinese and Bruneian records, which predate most of the local written sources extant in the Philippines today, are significant as they give historians a textual record of what life in precolonial Philippines was like."@en }
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- Huangdom_of_Ma-i abstract "Ma-i or Maidh (also spelled Ma'i, Mai, Ma-yi or Mayi; Chinese: 麻逸; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: má it) was a sovereign Prehispanic Philippine state, notable for having established trade relations with the Kingdom of Brunei, and with Song and Ming Dynasty China.For many years, scholars believed that this state was likely on the island of Mindoro. But recent scholarship casts doubt on this theory, arguing that historical descriptions better match Bay, Laguna (whose name is pronounced Ba-i), which once ruled over a vast territory on the eastern coasts of Laguna de Bay. Another suggested location is Malolos, Bulacan. However, these suggested locations in Southern Luzon are called in the Zhu Fan Zhi as Pu-li-lu (Pulilan), a place inhabited by "thieves and robbers."Its existence was recorded both in the Chinese Imperial annals Zhu Fan Zhi (諸番志) and History of Song and in the royal records Sultanate of Brunei, which refer to it as the nation of Maidh. Mangyans or aboriginals in Mindoro call it Maidh or Ma-it.These Chinese and Bruneian records, which predate most of the local written sources extant in the Philippines today, are significant as they give historians a textual record of what life in precolonial Philippines was like.".