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{{Short description|Spanish army officer}}
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| birth_name = Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa
| birth_date = May 2, 1795
| birth_place = [[Girona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain<ref name="baptism">[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTD9-T6 Baptismal record of Narciso Clavería]</ref>
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[[File:Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellidos.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The ''Catalogo alfabetico de appellidos'' (1849)]]
''' Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa, 1st Count of Manila''' ([[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Narcís Josep Anastasi Claveria i Zaldua'';
Clavería is widely recognized as a reformist and modernizing administrator. He traveled through many provinces trying to learn the needs of Filipinos. He encouraged agriculture, improved the streets and suburbs of [[Manila]], and succeeded in helping the country.<ref name="Jernegan">Jernegan, Prescott Ford (1905) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rldFAAAAIAAJ "A short history of the Philippines: for use in Philippine schools"]. pp. 232-234. D. Appleton and Company, New York.</ref> He was given the title [[Count of Manila]].<ref name="Repertorio"/><ref>[https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1848/4980/A00002-00002.pdf Real decreto concediendo el título de Castilla con la denominación de conde de Manila, vizconde de Clavería, para sí, sus hijos y sucesores legítimos á D. Narciso Clavería, gobernador y Capitán general de las islas Filipinas]. [[Gaceta de Madrid]]. no. 4980,
▲''' Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa''' ([[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Narcís Josep Anastasi Claveria i Zaldua''; 2 May 1795<ref name="baptism"/> – 20 June 1851) was a Spanish army officer who served as the [[Governor-General of the Philippines]] from July 16 1844 to December 26 1849.
▲Clavería is widely recognized as a reformist and modernizing administrator. He traveled through many provinces trying to learn the needs of Filipinos. He encouraged agriculture, improved the streets and suburbs of [[Manila]], and succeeded in helping the country.<ref name="Jernegan">Jernegan, Prescott Ford (1905) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rldFAAAAIAAJ "A short history of the Philippines: for use in Philippine schools"]. pp. 232-234. D. Appleton and Company, New York.</ref> He was given the title Count of Manila.<ref name="Repertorio"/><ref>[https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1848/4980/A00002-00002.pdf Real decreto concediendo el título de Castilla con la denominación de conde de Manila, vizconde de Clavería, para sí, sus hijos y sucesores legítimos á D. Narciso Clavería, gobernador y Capitán general de las islas Filipinas]. [[Gaceta de Madrid]]. no. 4980, 03/05/1848, pg. 2. (BOE-A-1848-2189)</ref> The towns of [[Claveria, Misamis Oriental|Claveria]] in [[Misamis Oriental]] [[Provinces of the Philippines|province]], [[Claveria, Masbate|Claveria]] in [[Masbate]] province, and [[Claveria, Cagayan|Claveria]] in [[Cagayan]] province were named in his honor.<ref name="Lakay">(2009-03-28). [http://www.lakay-lakay.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55 "Brief History of Claveria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713182245/http://www.lakay-lakay.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55 |date=2011-07-13 }}. Lakay-Lakay, Official Claveria Website. Retrieved on 2011-06-03.</ref>
His grandson, [[Narciso Clavería y de Palacios, 3rd Count of Manila]], was an architect who designed the [[Toledo Railway Station]].
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===Reformation of the Philippine calendar===
The [[Philippines]] from 1521 to 1844 was one day behind the [[calendars]] of [[Asia]], [[Europe]] and [[
===Surnames for Filipinos===
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From the earliest days, the chief of a [[Philippine province|province]] had acted both as governor and judge. He also engaged in trade, of which he had a [[monopoly]]. With multiple duties, it was not strange that the governors were often poor rulers. They knew little of the law and therefore they sent all the important cases to Manila. For this reason there were often long delays in processing cases. Sometimes it required years to get justice and this encouraged the strong to oppress the weak. Clavería therefore ordered that the governors be men of two years experience in the law.<ref name="Jernegan"/>
Clavería mandated that the governors should not engage in [[trade]]. This decree was not fully obeyed for many years after the time of Clavería. At that time there were thirty-one provinces. The governor received a salary of from three hundred to two thousand [[Philippine peso]]s a year. The most common salary was six hundred pesos. In return for the privilege of controlling the trade of the provinces the governors paid the government as high as three thousand pesos a year
===Other acts during his term===
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==External links==
* [http://revistas.ucm.es/ghi/11328312/articulos/RCHA9797110209A.PDF Narciso de Clavería Zaldúa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222101011/http://revistas.ucm.es/ghi/11328312/articulos/RCHA9797110209A.PDF |date=February 22, 2012 }} from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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