BINALBAGAN, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

Years Ago, Binalbagan was then called Inabagan "the haven of refuge" in an island which was then called Buglas which is now Negros. Little people called Negritoes, inhabited this settlement, until a new group of people, believed to have been the Mundos, came and drove them farther inland. Then a new group of people composed of the ten Bornean datus and their families, in search of new lands to settle away from the tyrannical rule of the despot in Borneo, came and struck their stakes in the nearby island of Madya-as. From there, seafarers that they were, they explored the neighboring island of Buglas and settled here bringing with them their customs and traditions, their laws, and their knowledge in agriculture and the arts. The Malays who settled along the shores of Binalbagan were believed to have come from the group that came and populated the Visayas between 100 and 1300 A.D.