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Sambal is an Indonesian chili sauce or paste, typically made from a mixture of a variety of chilli peppers with secondary ingredients such as shrimp paste, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, palm sugar, and lime juice. Sambal is an Indonesian loanword of Javanese origin ( sambel ). [2]
The Sambal people are a Filipino ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the province of Zambales and the Pangasinense municipalities of Bolinao, Anda, and Infanta. The term may also refer to the general inhabitants of Zambales. They were also referred to as the Zambales (singular Zambal ) during the Spanish colonial era .
The largest Sambalic languages are Sambal, Bolinao, and Botolan with approximately 200,000, 105,000 and 72,000 speakers, respectively, based on the 2007 population statistics from the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). [1] These figures are the combined population of the municipalities where the language is spoken.
Zambales, officially the Province of Zambales ( Sambal: Probinsya nin Zambales; Ilocano: Probinsia ti Zambales; Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Zambales; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Zambales ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Iba, which is located in the middle of the province.
Sambal or Sambali is a Sambalic language spoken primarily in the Zambal municipalities of Santa Cruz, Candelaria, Masinloc, Palauig, and Iba, in the Pangasinense municipality of Infanta, and areas of Pampanga in the boundary with Zambales in the Philippines; speakers can also be found in Panitian, Quezon, Palawan and Barangay Mandaragat or Buncag of Puerto Princesa.
Botolan is a Sambalic language spoken by 32,867 ( SIL 2000) Sambal, primarily in the Zambal municipalities of Botolan and Cabangan in the Philippines. Language status is 5 (developing). [2]
Sambalpur derives its name from that of the Goddess Samalei who is regarded as the reigning deity of the region. In history, it has also been known as 'Sambalaka'. Maa Samalei, the reigning deity, after which the city of Sambalpur derives its name. The region in which Sambalpur city is located was also known as Hirakhanda from ancient times. [3]
Siddi Sambal was a Siddi naval officer who fought for the Mughal Empire. On 10 October 1673, he and his fleet entered Bombay without permission from the English East India Company (EIC) and attacked merchant shipping in the Pen and Nagothan rivers, disrupting the activities of both the EIC and Maratha king Shivaji .