Editing Luzon (section)

=== Interactions with the Portuguese ===
The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] were the first European explorers who recorded it in their charts as ''Luçonia'' or ''Luçon'', calling the inhabitants ''[[Luções]]''.<ref>Pires, Tomé, A suma oriental de Tomé Pires e o livro de Francisco Rodriguez: Leitura e notas de Armando Cortesão [1512–1515], translated and edited by Armando Cortesao, Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1944.</ref> [[Edmund Roberts (diplomat)|Edmund Roberts]], who visited Luzon in the early 19th century, wrote that Luzon was "discovered" in 1521.<ref name="Roberts1" />

Many people from Luzon were employed within Portuguese Malacca. For example, the [[Spice trade|spice magnate]] [[Regimo de Raja]], based in Malacca, was highly influential and was appointed as ''Temenggong'' (Sea Lord)—a governor and chief general responsible for overseeing of maritime trade—by the Portuguese. As ''Temenggong'', de Raja was also the head of an [[Navy|armada]] which traded and protected commerce in the [[Indian Ocean]], the [[Strait of Malacca]], the [[South China Sea]],<ref>Antony, Robert J. Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. Print, 76.</ref> and the [[History of the Philippines (900–1521)|medieval maritime principalities of the Philippines]].<ref>Junker, Laura L. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Honolulu: University of Hawaiì Press, 1999.</ref><ref>Wilkinson, R J. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary (romanised). London: Macmillan and Co, 1948. Print, 291.</ref> His father and wife carried on his maritime trading business after his death. Another important Malacca trader was Curia de Raja who also hailed from Luzon. The "surname" of "de Raja" or "diraja" could indicate that Regimo and Curia, and their families, were of noble or royal descent as the term is an abbreviation of Sanskrit ''adiraja''.<ref>Junker, 400. http://sambali.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-borneo-route.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803052749/http://sambali.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-borneo-route.html |date=August 3, 2015 }}</ref>

[[Fernão Mendes Pinto]] noted that a number of Luções in the Islamic fleets went to battle with the Portuguese in the Philippines during the 16th century. The Sultan of Aceh gave one of them (Sapetu Diraja) the task of holding Aru (northeast Sumatra) in 1540. Pinto also says one was named leader of the Malays remaining in the Moluccas Islands after the Portuguese conquest in 1511.<ref name="Pinto">{{Cite book |last=Pinto |first=Fernão Mendes |url=https://archive.org/details/travelsofmendesp0000pint |title=The Travels of Mendes Pinto. |date=1989 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=9780226669519 |language=en |translator-last=Catz |translator-first=Rebecca D. |author-link=Fernão Mendes Pinto |orig-year=1578 |url-access=registration}}</ref> [[Antonio Pigafetta]] notes that one of them was in command of the Brunei fleet in 1521.<ref name="Pigafetta">{{Cite book
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  | last = Pigafetta
  | first = Antonio
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  | title = First voyage round the world
  | series = Primo viaggio intorno al globo terraqueo.English.
  | language = en
  | translator = J.A. Robertson
  | year = 1969
  | place = Manila
  | publisher = Filipiniana Book Guild
  | orig-year = 1524
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  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190622040115/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009797644
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  }}</ref> However, the Luções did not only fight on the side of the Muslims. Pinto says they were also apparently among the natives of the Philippines who fought the Muslims in 1538.<ref name="Pinto" />

On [[Mainland Southeast Asia]], Lusung/Luções warriors aided the Burmese king in his invasion of Siam in 1547. At the same time, Lusong warriors fought alongside the Siamese king and faced the same elephant army of the Burmese king in the defence of the Siamese capital at Ayutthaya.{{sfn|Pigafetta|1969|p=195}} Luções military and trade activity reached as far as [[Sri Lanka]] in [[South Asia]] where Lungshanoid pottery made in Luzon were discovered in burials.<ref>"Quest of the Dragon and Bird Clan; The Golden Age (Volume III)" -Lungshanoid (Glossary)- By Paul Kekai Manansala</ref>

Scholars have thus suggested that they could be mercenaries valued by all sides.<ref name="Pires"/><ref name="Lach">{{cite book
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