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Armed Forces on 1945, well before the Battle of Zamboanga. That was before the liberation of local Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units on 1944 and the American troops on the U.S. After the three-year main conflicts, when the Zamboangueño guerrillas were retreating against the Japanese in the main province. The Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim resistance groups mounted guerrilla conflicts and insurgencies in the main province of Zamboanga on 1942 to 1944 during the Japanese Occupation and helped by local troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army units against the Japanese. The founding of the local military establishment of the general headquarters of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was active on 1942 to 1946 and the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was stationed in the province of Zamboanga.
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The establishment of the general headquarters, garrisons and concentration camps of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces was stationed in Zamboanga. After the defeat of the American-Filipino forces in Corregidor, most of the province went under Japanese control. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines (1942), Zamboanga acting Governor Felipe Azcuna moved the capital from Zamboanga City to Dipolog. The province is composed of five (5) municipalities:Īnd is sub-divided into twelve (12) municipal districts: Florentino Saguin was elected as first elected governor. In 1920, the Department of Mindanao and Sulu was officially dissolved and Zamboanga became an independent province and in 1922, elections were held for the first elected provincial officials of Zamboanga. Luis Lim was appointed as the first governor of Zamboanga. It was divided into Zamboanga, Sulu, Cotabato, Davao, Agusan and Surigao. The Moro Province, in 1914 was replaced by the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
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After the dissolution of the republic, Zamboanga was eventually consolidated into one major administrative area by the American government of the Philippines, consisting of an enormous region that was the Mindanao island's western peninsula, Basilan Island, and the entire Sulu archipelago, with the ancient namesake town/fort of Zamboanga as the seat of its government, and was called the Moro Province of the Philippines.