Romblon Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of the Philippines
About Romblon
If you are wondering why locals in each town in Romblon have last names beginning with the same letter (e.g. R in Romblon town, thus there are the Romeros, Ramoses, Reyeses, etc.), this is a result of a colonial decree that mandated Filipinos to adopt a surname. Historically, the people in Romblon do not have surnames, and in 1849, they were required to adopt one from an official catalog for taxation and record-keeping purposes; the decree also states the inhabitants of each town must have a surname beginning with the letter assigned to each settlement by the colonial administrators. In Romblon, it was strictly enforced. You might know where someone in the province came from by just taking the first letter of their last name. Romblon's name derive from a corruption of the Romblomanon wordn
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