Palayan City
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The City of Palayan is a 5th class city
Cities of the Philippines
A city is a tier of local government in the Philippines. All Philippine cities are chartered cities, whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own specific charters in addition to the Local Government Code of 1991, which specifies the administrative structure...
in the province
Provinces of the Philippines
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of Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Palayan City...
, Philippines
Philippines
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. It is the capital city of Nueva Ecija. According to the latest census, it has a population of 33,506 people in 6,279 households.
The City of Palayan was created in 1965 by the Congress of the Philippines
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and one of the 6 cities of the Philippines whose creation was specifically planned (the other five cities are Manila
Manila
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, Baguio, Quezon City
Quezon City
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, Trece Martires
Trece Mártires
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, and the Island Garden City of Samal). Palayan City is located in the heart of Nueva Ecija.
The new provincial capitol of Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Palayan City...
is located here.
History
When the Japanese Imperial armed forces has did not entered and occupied in Palayan in 1942 during the Japanese Invasion through they the using of the built and re-established of the local military camps, bases and military GHQ of the Commonwealth Army of the Philippines in the town of Palayan stated the Japanese Insurgencies and Occupation.During the Second World War, the local military general headquarters of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was re-established and built of the military camps and bases on 1942 to 1946 in Palayan, Nueva Ecija and aided the local military regular units of the PCA 2nd, 25th and 26th Infantry Division. Some of all the stronghold Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army 2nd, 25th and 26th Infantry Division was sending military operations in the province of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon from the Local Military GHQ and Camp Bases in Palayan to helping the local guerrillas, Hukabalahap Communist rebels and U.S. liberation military forces and defeated and fought against the Japanese troops during the Japanese Counter-Insurgencies (1942-1944) and the Allied Liberation (1944-1945).
Before the Allied Liberation of Central Luzon, and some of combined U.S. and Philippine Commonwealth military ground troops aided the helpful of the local guerrilla resistance and the Hukbalahap Communist rebel fighters started the liberate the province of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon and attacking Japanese Imperial Forces and aftermath in World War II.
Barangays
Palayan is politically subdivided into 19 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
s.
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