Talk:Battle of Mactan

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There is a scientific discussion that the Battle of Mactan did not take place on the present island of Mactan which was called opo island until the international airport was built there and the island was renamed 'Mactan'. Supposedly the battle of Mactan was on the Camotes islands that were caleld 'Mactan' at that time. EtW —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.134.161 (talk) 22:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Battle of Mactan"?

I haven't actually seem this nomenclature employed in scholarly publications, but perhaps I'm just overlooking something. A "J-Stor" search for the phrase turns up only this, where it is used as "battle of Mactan" (the word "battle" isn't capitalized, thus the author is just referring to an unnamed battle that occurred at Mactan.) A Google search reveals 8,000 hits for the phrase, but as with the above incident it's unclear which of these are applying this phrase as a title. I have thusfar found references to the "Battle of Mactan" on Philippine websites, but not elsewhere. This article suggests that the more popular titular expression is "the battle between Lapu-Lapu and Ferdinand Magellan."

In summation, my question is: is this incident in fact labeled "the Battle of Mactan" in acadæmic circles?--Xiaphias (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I just checked, and in Laurence Bergreen's 2003 book Over the Edge of the World, he uses the lowercase version ("battle of Mactan"). --Xiaphias (talk) 08:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'm going to rework the article accordingly since I haven't gotten any feedback. If you object, let me know. --Xiaphias (talk) 10:01, 24 May 2008 (UTC)