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The name Filipino was chosen by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, who named the islands "las Islas Filipinas" ("the Philippine Islands") after Philip II of Spain.
The Philippines were a Spanish colony for over 300 years, leaving Filipino culture and people semi-Hispanicized.
About 90% of the Filipino population identifies as Roman Catholic and many have Spanish surnames.
As the Philippine Statistics Department does not account for the racial background or ancestry of an individual, the official percentage of Filipinos with Spanish ancestry is unknown.
A study conducted by Stanford University based on DNA samples extrapolated that around 3.6% of Filipinos have European genetic ancestries.
The arrival of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 began a period of European colonization.
During the period of Spanish colonialism beginning in the 16th century, the Philippines was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was governed and controlled from Mexico City.
Early Spanish settlers were mostly explorers, soldiers, government officials and religious missionaries born in Spain and Mexico.
Most Spaniards who settled were of Andalusian ancestry but there were also Catalonian, Moorish and Basque settlers.
The Peninsulares (governors born in Spain), mostly of Castilian ancestry, settled in the islands to govern their territory.
Most settlers married the daughters of rajahs, datus and sultans (chieftains) to reinforce the colonization of the islands.
The Ginoo and Maharlika castes (royals and nobles) in the Philippines prior to the arrival of the Spanish formed the privileged Principalia (nobility) during the Spanish period.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of Japanese traders also migrated to the Philippines and assimilated into the local population.
A caricature of General Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero taken from the Catalan newspaper la Campana de Gràcia.
He became the only Spanish prime minister of Filipino descent.
As a part of the Seven years war, the British forces occupied Manila between 1762 and 1764.
However, the only part of the Philippines which the British held was the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the principal naval port Cavite, both of which are located on Manila Bay.
The war was ended by the Treaty of Paris (1763). At the end of the war the treaty signatories were not aware that Manila had been taken by the British and was being administered as a British colony. Consequently, no specific provision was made for the Philippines. Instead they fell under the general provision that all other lands not otherwise provided for be returned to the Spanish Empire.
Many Indian Sepoy troops and their British captains mutinied and were left in Manila and some parts of the Ilocos and Cagayan.
The ones in Manila settled at Cainta, Rizal and the ones at the north settled at Isabela. Most were assimilated into the local population.