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​1734 Murillo Velarde map is back in Manila

Sharing the spotlight at the launching of Senior Justice Antonio T. Carpio’s E-Book, “The South China Sea Dispute: Philippine Sovereign Rights and Jurisdiction in the West Philippine Sea” at the Manila Polo Club Thursday was a glass- encased 1734 Murillo-Velarde map.

​1734 Murillo Velarde map is back in Manila

PH to submit 300-year-old map to Arbitral Court in case vs China

  The Philippine government will be submitting to the Permanent Court of Arbitration  in The Hague this week an almost 300-year-old map of the Philippines showing the disputed Scarborough Shoal being part of Philippine territory as far back as three centuries ago. The map debunks the so-called nine-dash-line China has been using as proof of

PH to submit 300-year-old map to Arbitral Court in case vs China