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- Quezon City, or Q.C., is the largest city of the Philippines. It is just south of Manila. In 2015, it had a population of 2.936 million people. The city, on Luzon island, was named after Manuel L. Quezon, the former president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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Quezon City (UK: / ˈ k eɪ z ɒ n /, US: / ˈ k eɪ s ɒ n,-s ɔː n,-s oʊ n /; Filipino: Lungsod Quezon [luŋˈsod ˈkɛson] ⓘ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,960,048 people.
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Quezon, officially the Province of Quezon (Filipino: Lalawigan ng Quezon), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Kalilayan was the first known name of the province upon its creation in 1591. Around the middle of the 18th century, it was changed to Tayabas.
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quezoncity .gov .ph. Quezon City, or Q.C., is the largest city of the Philippines. It is just south of Manila. In 2015, it had a population of 2.936 million people. [7] The city, on Luzon island, was named after Manuel L. Quezon, the former president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines .
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Taipei (1968–) Páxina web. quezoncity.gov.ph. Quezon, oficialmente Lungsod Quezon en tagalo ou Quezon City en inglés, é a cidade máis poboada e o centro urbano máis rico de Filipinas. A súa poboación en 2007 era de 2,679.450 habitantes. Tamén foi a capital do país entre os anos 1948 e 1976.
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Quezon was born on 19 August 1878 in Baler in the district of El Príncipe, then the capital of Nueva Ecija (now Baler, Aurora). His parents were Lucio Quezon y Vélez (1850–1898) and María Dolores Molina (1840–1893). Both were primary-school teachers, although his father was a retired sargento de Guardia Civil (sergeant of the Civil Guard). Accordin...
House of Representatives
Quezon was elected in 1907 to represent Tayabas's 1st district in the first Philippine Assembly (which later became the House of Representatives) during the 1st Philippine Legislature, where he was majority floor leader and chairman of the committees on rules and appropriations. Months before his term ended, he gave up his seat at the Philippine Assembly upon being appointed as one of the Philippines' two resident commissioners. Serving two terms from 1909 to 1916, he lobbied for the passage...
Senate
Quezon returned to Manila in 1916, and was elected senator from the Fifth Senatorial District. He was later elected Senate President and served continuously until 1935 (19 years), the longest tenure in history until Senator Lorenzo Tañada's four consecutive terms (24 years, from 1947 to 1972). Quezon headed the first independent mission to the U.S. Congress in 1919, and secured passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act in 1934. In 1922, he became leader of the Nacionalista Partyalliance Partido Nac...
First term
In 1935, Quezon won the Philippines' first national presidential election under the Nacionalista Party. He received nearly 68 percent of the vote against his two main rivals, Emilio Aguinaldo and Gregorio Aglipay. Quezon, inaugurated in November 1935, is recognized as the second President of the Philippines. In January 2008, however, House Representative Rodolfo Valencia of Oriental Mindoro filed a bill seeking to declare General Miguel Malvarthe second Philippine President; Malvar succeeded...
Quezon had developed tuberculosis and spent his last years in hospitals, including a Miami Beach Army hospital in April 1944. That summer, he was at a cure cottage in Saranac Lake, New York. Quezon died there at 10:05 a.m. ET on 1 August 1944, less than three weeks before his 66th birthday. His remains were initially buried in Arlington National Ce...
Quezon was married to his first cousin, Aurora Aragón Quezon, on 17 December 1918. They had four children: María Aurora "Baby" Quezon (23 September 1919 – 28 April 1949), María Zenaida "Nini" Quezon-Avanceña (9 April 1921 – 12 July 2021), Luisa Corazón Paz "Nenita" Quezon (17 February – 14 December 1924) and Manuel L. "Nonong" Quezon, Jr. (23 June ...
The Foreign Orders, Medals and Decorations of President Manuel L. Quezon: 1. Foreign Awards 1.1. France: : Légion d'honneur, Officer 1.2. Mexico: : Order of the Aztec Eagle, Collar 1.3. Belgium: : Order of the Crown, Grand Cross 1.4. Spain: : Orden de la República Española, Grand Cross 1.5. Republic of China: : Order of Brilliant Jade, Grand Cordon...
Quezon City, the province of Quezon, Quezon Bridge in Manila, Manuel L. Quezon University, and many streets are named after him. The Quezon Service Cross is the Philippines' highest honor. Quezon is memorialized on Philippine currency, appearing on the Philippine twenty-peso note and two commemorative 1936 one-peso coins: one with Frank Murphy and ...
Quezon was played by Richard Gutierrez in the 2010 music video of the Philippine national anthem produced and aired by GMA Network. Arnold Reyes played him in the musical MLQ: Ang Buhay ni Manuel Luis Quezon (2015). Quezon was played by Benjamin Alves in the film, Heneral Luna (2015). Alves and TJ Trinidad played him in the 2018 film Goyo: Ang Bata...
A sample of Quezon's voice is preserved in a recorded speech, "Message to My People", which he delivered in English and Spanish. According to Manuel L. Quezon III, his grandfather's speech was recorded when he was President of the Senate "in the 1920s, when he was first diagnosed with tuberculosisand assumed he didn't have much longer to live."
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The Quezon Memorial Circle is a national park located in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The park is located inside a large traffic circle in the shape of an ellipse and bounded by the Elliptical Road and is the main park of Quezon City (which served as the official capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976).
Cebu City. / 10.293°N 123.902°E / 10.293; 123.902. Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu ( Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.
