ALIAGA, a municipality (with administrative centre and 14 barrios or districts) of the province of Nueva Ecija, Luzon, Philip pine islands, almost due west from the capital Cabanatuan and about Tom. N. by W. of Manila. Pop. (1918) 12,703, of whom 6,428 were male, 6,271 female. The white population numbered four. Literacy (based on ages from ten years up, 1918) 56.6%. It has a comparatively cool and healthful climate, and is pleasantly situated about midway between the Pampanga Grande and Pam panga Chico rivers, and in a large and fertile valley, of which the principal products are corn, rice, sugar and tobacco. The four languages spoken are Tagalog, Ilocano, Pampango and Pangasinan. There were five schools of all sorts in 1918. In 1848 Aliaga was transferred from the province of Pampanga to that of Nueva Ecija. Civil Government under the United States was organized in 1901. (J. A. R.)