page_title: Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur
section_title: The Spanish Period
hierarchical_section_title: Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur / History / The Spanish Period
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Spanish Camp, Barangay Militar, Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
context_page_description: Tukuran, officially the Municipality of Tukuran, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 39,820 people.
  Kargado, a movie starring Gardo Versoza, was shot in Tukuran at Tabak E Beach Resort in 1998.
context_section_description: An excerpt from the Treaty of Sultan Kudarat of Maguindanao and King Philip IV of Spain signed on June 24, 1645 proves that the place used to be vassalage of the Sultan of Maguindanao. Islam was the dominant religion of the land. There was no king to rule, nor there existed a single law signifying the rights and duties of the subjects. Each datu considered himself as the most outstanding and powerful chieftain of the place and yet he had no more loyal subjects than his relatives and slaves. According to Thomas Forrest in 1780 Tukuran is a place where Iranuns lived in, built and repaired prahus. There were several services conducted by Spaniards in the isthmus of Tukuran because of it being the strategic place for a Spanish stronghold and to shorten communication in the north of Pangil Bay to south of Illana Bay, as well. On March 12, 1890 a fortified station named after the member of the royal family fort Alfonso XII locally known as fort Militar was built to stop the Moro from their slave-raiding activities against the Subanu people to Christians, and to facilitate their pacification on Mindanao campaign of colonization in general. Governor General Valeriano Weyler proposed the construction of a canal across the isthmus. the plan, however, did not realize.
caption: Old Spanish Camp, Barangay Militar
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