Sandao

Sāndǎo (Chinese: 三嶋; pinyin: Sāndǎo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-tó; lit. 'Three Islands'), also known as Sanyu (Chinese: 三嶼; pinyin: Sānyǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-sū; lit. 'Three Islets') and Sanshu (Japanese: 三洲（さんしゅう）, romanized: Sanshū; Chinese: 三洲; pinyin: Sānzhōu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-chiu; lit. 'Three Islets'), were a collection of a prehispanic Philippine polities recorded in Chinese annals as a nation occupying the islands of Chinese: 加麻延; pinyin: Jiāmáyán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-mâ-iân (present-day Calamian), Chinese: 巴姥酉; pinyin: Bālǎoyǒu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pa-ló-iú (present-day Palawan), and Chinese: 蒲裏喚; pinyin: Púlǐhuàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pô͘-lí-hoàn (possibly Pulilan, near present-day Manila). In the Chinese Gazetteer the Zhūfān zhì 諸蕃志 (1225), they were described as tributary states of the more powerful nation of Ma-i (Chinese: 麻逸; pinyin: Máyì; Wade–Giles: Ma2-i4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Mâ-i̍t) centered in nearby Mindoro.

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