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Urduja
Urduja is a legendary warrior princess in the travel account of Ibn Battuta. He wrote that she ruled the land of Tawalisi. Many Filipinos link her to Pangasinan. Historians do not agree where Tawalisi was.
Folklore is retold; versions differ.
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The story
Urduja is a warrior princess in the travel account of Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveler of the 1300s. He wrote of a land that he called Tawalisi, with a princess of Kaylukari. She was a fighter who joined duels, and she would marry only a man who could beat her. Ibn Battuta did not say that she lived in the Philippines.
The link to Pangasinan came later. In 1916, Austin Craig traced Tawalisi and Urduja there. Today Lingayen has an Urduja House, which is the governor's residence, and a statue of her stands at Hundred Islands National Park. Many Filipinos see her as a national heroine. A live action film, Princesa Urduja, came out in 1942, and an animated film followed in 2008.
Historians do not agree about where Kaylukari and Tawalisi were. Suggested places include Pangasinan, Sulu, Sulawesi, Java and Cambodia. No Philippine record from that time names her, so she is best taken as a figure from one foreign traveler's account.