Bilar

IJsselstein, Monday, 14 February 2011

Bilar is an interior town northeast of Loboc. This town used to occupy a big area and included what are now known as the municipalities of Sevilla, Batuan and Carmen. They were formerly sitios of this municipality. In 1879, it had a population 5,669. The native word bilar is derived from the infinitive nagbilad. During the Spanish regime, the Spaniards, in their effort to spread Christianity, toured the interior villages and somehow chanced to pass a plateau where a group of women were drying palay. When the women were asked as to the name of the place, the immediate reply was nagbilad, meaning drying, thinking that the foreigners were asking their activity. The Spaniards shorten the term to "bilad" and later on to "bilar" due to their difficulty in pronouncing the word. By virtue of a royal decree, the name Bilar was adopted as the official name of the municipality.

Fiesta

Bilar celebrate its town fiesta on the 15th of May in honor of Saint Isidore the Farmer.

(Based on figures from the census of 2000)

Jeroen Hellingman

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