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Island's History
By Prof. Rolando O. Borrinaga, Ph.D.
Origin
During the early Spanish era, what is now called Biliran
Island was known as Isla de Panamao. The term refers to an ethnic
fishing net. The present name, believed to be adopted sometime between
the late 1600s and the early 1700s, was, according to many publications,
derived from a native grass called borobiliran which once grew
abundantly on the island's plains. A contending theory states that the
name came from the word bilir, which was defined in...
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