People / group
Tausug
The Tausug are a Muslim people of the Sulu archipelago in the southern Philippines, with communities also in Sabah and other parts of Mindanao. Their name means people of the current. They formed the core of the Sulu Sultanate, whose society was organised around the sultan and hereditary datus, and they long resisted Spanish and American rule.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tausug. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tausug
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- “Tausug.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tausug. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Tausug’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tausug (Accessed: ).
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