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    Nojpetén (redirect from Tayasal)
    Nojpetén (also spelled Noh Petén, and also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. It was located on an island...
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    Tayasal is a Maya archaeological site located in present-day Guatemala. It was a large Maya city with a long history of occupation. Tayasal is a corruption...
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    known as Tayasal as their capital. They called it Nojpetén, (noj peten, literally "Great Island" in the Itza language). The Spanish called it Tayasal, possibly...
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    1519 to 1525. After his death, he was deified by the Itza people of the Tayasal region and referred to as Tziminchác. Acquired by Cortés in 1519, Morzillo...
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  • that the region mostly had small hamlets separated by thick forest, with Tayasal being the only sizable inhabited city they observed. After Cortés' expedition...
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    northern Guatemala, is notable as where the last independent Maya city, Tayasal (or Noh Petén), held out against the Spanish until 1697. Other large lakes...
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    (Guatemala) Xpuhil Uaxactún (Guatemala) Dzibanche Tikal (Guatemala) Kohunlich Nakum (Guatemala) Mutul (Guatemala) Tayasal (Guatemala) Naranjo (Belize)...
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    Elena de la Cruz by a causeway. Guatemala portal Geography of Guatemala Tayasal Spanish conquest of Petén La isla de Flores Accessed on March 31, 2019...
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    "great island" in Itza'. The early Spanish accounts referred to it as Tayasal, derived from the Nahuatl tah itza ("place of the Itzá"). The Itza' were...
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    Punta de Chimino, Río Azul, Sacul, San Bartolo, La Sufricaya, Tamarindito, Tayasal, El Tintal, Tres Islas, Ucanal, Xultun, Zacpeten, Zapote Bobal and El Zotz...
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    least 27 Maya sites around this lake and the archaeological remains of Tayasal, located across the lake on a peninsula close to the former Itza Maya capital...
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  • for. First appearance of Val Var Garm. Tom Strong #9 – Terror Temple of Tayasal; Volcano Dreams; Flip Attitude! (19 July 2000) w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse...
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    was founded in 1516 by Mayan immigrants from Chakán Putum, Lakam Há and Tayasal. Balancán is located in the Usumacinta region and in the Los Ríos subregion...
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    led Thompson to suggest that a Spanish priest acquired the document at Tayasal in Petén. The Paris Codex (also or formerly the Codex Peresianus) contains...
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    campaign is generally marked by the downfall of the Maya state based at Tayasal in the Petén region, in 1697. Even before Juan de Grijalva returned to...
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    españoles, 'in the last years before the [1697] arrival of the Spanish [to Tayasal],' the latter purportedly seeking to conquer the former. This is naturally...
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    led Thompson to suggest that a Spanish priest acquired the document at Tayasal in Petén. The codex was discovered in Spain in the 1860s, and was divided...
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  • de Tayasal" [Map and Description of the Jungle of Petén and Itza. Interpretation of a Document from the Years Soon After the Conquest of Tayasal] (PDF)...
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    Dahala-matidala region from the Kalachuri ruler Vijayasirhha. Malik Nusrat-ud-din Tayasal, a general under Iltutmish, led an invasion of Kalanjara during the reign...
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    Department, Guatemala Tamchen Campeche, Mexico Tancah Quintana Roo, Mexico Tayasal Petén Department, Guatemala Tazumal Santa Ana Department, El Salvador Taxaha...
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    Yaxchilan Lintel 24 Post-Classic AD 900–1519 Maya Itzá, Chichen Itza, Mayapan, Tayasal, and Kowoj Topoxte, Toltec, Purépecha, Mixtec, Totonac Early Post-Classic...
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    a kingdom centered on the island-city of Nojpetén on Lake Peten Itza. Tayasal is on a small island surrounded by water, and unless the natives go by...
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  • the Petén Basin where such cities as El Mirador, Tikal, Calakmul, and Tayasal would be built. The dominant site of these early colonists was Nakbe in...
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    from Aj Kan Ekʼ, the king of the Itza, to visit Nojpetén (also known as Tayasal), and crossed to the Maya city with 20 Spanish soldiers while the rest...
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    allies in 1521. The defeat of Mesoamerica was complete when, in 1697, Tayasal was burned and razed by the Spanish. With the destruction of the superstructure...
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    Tipu and of the Muzuls' (von Houwald 1984, p. 266). Upon the 1697 fall of Tayasal, the Territory's caciques were listed in Spanish records as among those...
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    de Tayasal" [Map and Description of the Jungle of Petén and Itza. Interpretation of a Document from the Years Soon After the Conquest of Tayasal] (PDF)...
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    proposed by Campbell & Kaufman (1976) The last independent Maya kingdom (Tayasal) was not conquered until 1697, some 170 years after the first conquistadores...
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  • (Maya site) San Mateo Ixtatán Seibal La Sufricaya Takalik Abaj Tamarindito Tayasal (archaeological site) El Temblor Tikal El Tintal Topoxté Tres Islas Uaxactún...
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  • centuries after the conquest - and arguably to this day. For example, Tayasal, the last independent city of the Maya, did not fall under Spanish sway...
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