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page 1History of Palawan
Palawan massacre
massacre of American POWs by Japanese soldiers during World War II in Palawan, Philippines
Invasion of Palawan
1945 battle between the US and Japan
Sandao
left|upright=0.67|thumb|An example of a Jade Lingling-o from [[Palawan island, Sandao "三嶋" which included Palawan was a source of high quality carved Jade that was exported.]]Sāndǎo (), also known as Sanyu () and Sanshu (; ), were a collection of a prehispanic Philippine polities recorded in Chinese annals as a nation occupying the islands of (present-day Calamian), (present-day Palawan), and (possibly Pulilan, near present-day Manila). In the Chinese Gazetteer the Zhūfān zhì 諸蕃志 (1225), they were described as tributary states of the more powerful nation of Ma-i () centered in nearby Mindoro.