So what does Maharlika mean for both Tagalog and Hebrew? In Hebrew: “A dowry sent to yourself.”

The main difference between a nation and state is that a nation is a political unit within a state. an imagined political community.

A nation refers to a group of people who feel bound into a single body by shared culture, values, folkways, religion and/or language. A state refers to a portion of land with a sovereign government and laws. States often coincide with nations (and are called nation-states but not always).

royal nobility

Noun(1) a prince or king in India(2) type genus of the family Rajidae.

the Philippines

Philippines holds the largest copper and gold deposit in the world and is the fifth most mineral-rich country for gold, nickel, copper, and chromite.

Ophir (/ˈoʊfər/; Hebrew: אוֹפִיר, Modern Ofir, Tiberian ʼÔp̄îr) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth. King Solomon received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, pearls, ivory, apes, and peacocks from Ophir every three years.

Saudi Arabia

No remains from Solomon’s Temple have ever been found. The presumption is that it was destroyed completely and buried during the huge project of building the Second Temple, in Herod’s time.

When King Solomon’s Temple was captured and destroyed by the Babylonians in 597 and 586 B.C., the coveted artefact disappeared forever. Some of the treasures were hidden in Israel and Babylonia, while others were delivered into the hands of the angels Shamshiel, Michael and Gabriel.

Excluding the bronze, and using the average current price of gold, the gold alone of Solomon’s temple would have been an astonishing $194,404,500,000. The silver would have been $22,199,076,000. Added together, the gold and silver used along in Solomon’s Temple was worth $216,603,576,000.