# barangay

> well-organized independent villages (Pre-colonial) and complex sociopolitical unit which was the dominant organizational pattern among indigenous communities in the Philippine archipelago during approximately the 14th to the 16th centuries

**Wikidata**: [Q4858354](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4858354)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precolonial_barangay)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/barangay