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=== Butuan ===
{{Main|Butuan (historical polity)}}
[[File:Butuan Ivory Seal.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Butuan Ivory Seal]], displayed at the [[National Museum of the Philippines]]. The [[Kawi script]] lettering says "But-wan" and the smaller lettering (similar to [[Baybayin]]) says "Bu-wa" (diacritics for the "Wan/Ban" in Kawi and "Bu/Ba" in the smaller letters have worn off).]]
The official history of the Song dynasty next refers to the [[Rajahnate of Butuan]] ({{circa|before 1001–1756}}) in northeastern Mindanao which is the first polity from the Philippine archipelago recorded as having sent a tribute mission to the Chinese empire—on March 17, 1001, CE. Butuan later attained prominence under the rule of Rajah Sri Bata Shaja.{{sfn|Cruz|Adiong|2020}} In the year 1011, [[Rajah]] Sri Bata Shaja, the monarch of the [[Greater India|Indianized]] [[Rajahnate of Butuan]], a maritime-state famous for its goldwork<ref>''Kinaadman''. 2001. Volume 23. Xavier University Press. Page 34.</ref> sent a trade envoy under ambassador Likan-shieh to the Chinese Imperial Court demanding equal diplomatic status with other states.{{sfn|Scott|1984|p=59}} The request being approved, it opened up direct commercial links with the Rajahnate of Butuan and the Chinese Empire thereby diminishing the monopoly on Chinese trade previously enjoyed by their rivals, [[Kingdom of Tondo|Tondo]] and the [[Champa]] civilization.{{sfn|Cruz|Adiong|2020|p=24}} Evidence of the existence of this rajahnate is given by the [[Butuan Silver Paleograph]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/silver.htm|author=Santos, Hector|title=The Butuan Silver Strip. A Philippine Leaf|access-date=July 16, 2011|date=1999|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724094840/http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/silver.htm|archive-date=July 24, 2011}}</ref> Researcher Eric Casino, believes the name of the first Rajah mentioned in Chinese records, Rajah Kiling, is not Visayan in origin but rather, Indian, because Kiling refers to the people of India.<ref>Eric Casino. "The Barangays of Butuan: Lumad Mindanaoans in China and the Sulu Zone". Asia Mindanaw: Dialogue of Peace and Development (2014): 2.</ref> The [[Sejarah Melayu]] (Malay Annals) of the nearby country of Malaysia, refers to the similarly worded [[Keling]] as immigrant people from [[India]].<ref name="sabrizain">{{cite web|url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/keling.htm|title=A historical perspective on the word 'Keling'|access-date=April 24, 2017|archive-date=April 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421150143/http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/keling.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>