Meaning of bansa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. nation
2. country
3. Equivalent to 'nation': A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological...

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Examples

“Ang bayang itó ay di kaila sa alin mang kasaysayan na marami nang bansâ ang nagnanasang maghari dito at sa katunaya'y may ilan na ng̃ang nakapaghari. Ang Kastila, na nakapaghari dito na mahiguit sa tatlong daan taon ay siyá kong uunkatin.”

This town is not known in any history that many nations have longed to rule here and in fact some have already been able to rule. The Spaniard, who has reigned here for more than three hundred years, is the one I am going to talk about.

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