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| footnotes = }} Olongapo, officially the City of Olongapo (; ; ) and often referred to as Olongapo City, is a highly urbanized city located in the province of Zambales, Philippines. It has a population of 221,178 people according to the 2010 census.〔 Along with the town of Subic, it comprises Metro Olongapo, one of the twelve metropolitan areas in the Philippines. ==Etymology== According to popular legend, there once was a group of warring tribes who lived in the area in and around what is now the modern city. A wise old man (known as apo), seeing the perils of disunity, exerted great effort toward uniting the warring tribes. There were, however, some who bitterly opposed his idea, and one day the old man just disappeared. After a long search, the old man's body was found, but with the head missing. It is said that the tribesmen launched search parties to locate the severed head of the man; to the Sambal, decapitation was the only permissible form of assassination.〔It was (recorded ) customary for the Sambal to execute those who have taken another person's life, unless done by decapitation. Their manner of execution was to bore a hole at the top of the skull and then scrape out the brains.〕 These efforts proved to be futile, and the search was eventually called off. A boy, however, vowed to himself that he would not stop searching until he found the elder's head. He searched for weeks, but found nothing. Then, one day, he chanced upon what appeared to be the old man's head, resting on top of a bamboo pole. The boy ran back to his people crying, "''Olo nin apo! Olo nin apo!''" ("head of the elder" in Sambal; translates as "''ulo ng apo''"〔(Olongapo Subic Bay sbma Zambales daily news jobs travel tour info ). Olongapo-subic.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-28.〕 in Tagalog), running hysterically from village to village. The phrase stuck, and that, according to legend, is how the area got its name, Olongapo. To this day, the old man's head acts as a symbol of the people's unity in what is now a modern city. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olongapo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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