Purépecha Empire, Michhuahcān from michin ("fish"), -huah ("possessor of"), and -cān ("place of") and means "place of fishers." The Purépecha Empire was...

their music." Pirekua Pelota purépecha Purépecha deities Purépecha Empire Purépecha language Purépecha flag "Purépecha". 26 December 2016. Haskell, David...

from Purépecha's attempts to take it back. In 1479, Axayacatl launched a major invasion of the Purépecha Empire with 32,000 Aztec soldiers. Purépecha met...

language, the language of the Purépecha Purépecha religion, the traditional religion of the Purépecha Purépecha Empire, or the Tarascan state, an indigenous...

ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Purépecha capital of the same name. The name comes from the Purépecha word Ts’intsuntsani, which means "place...

Aztec Empire, Irecha Tangaxuan II sent emissaries to the Spanish victors (the Purépecha empire was a contemporary and enemy of the Aztec Empire). A few...

and Teco peoples as well as the Purépecha. The main pre-Hispanic civilization of the state is that of the Purépecha, which was centered in the Lake Pátzcuaro...

 1350–1390) was a culture hero of the Purépecha people and one of the foremost rulers of the Purépecha Empire. Traditionally hailed as the state's founder...

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language family that is spoken by some 140,000 Purépecha in the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico. Purépecha was the main language of the pre-Columbian Tarascan...

founded sometime in the 1320s, at first becoming the capital of the Purépecha Empire and later its ceremonial center. After the Spanish took over, Vasco...

(Afro-Caribbean people) Olmec religion (Olmecs) Purépecha religion (Purépecha people of the Purépecha Empire) Rastafari (Jamaicans) Umbanda (Afro-Brazilians...

located on the northern edge of Mesoamerica, with both the Purépecha Empire and Aztec Empire having influence in the extreme south, but neither really...

Toltec Empire Purépecha Empire Aztec Empire Isolated civilizations in relation to the Afro-Eurasia. Wari Empire Tiwanaku Empire Inca Empire The Age of...

Spanish conquest of Chiapas (c. 1523 – c. 1695) Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521) Cholula massacre (1519) Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan...

the invasion by Purépecha cazonci (monarch) with the purpose to seize the mining of saltpeter and ended with the expulsion of Purépecha from the areas...

the Purépecha Empire closest to the Aztec Empire. This prompted two unsuccessful Aztec invasions as well as the first Spanish incursion into Purépecha lands...

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian...

II (died February 14, 1530) was the last cazonci (monarch) of the Purépecha Empire, from 1520–1530. He was baptized Francisco when his realm made a peace...

pre-Hispanic period, it was a buffer region between the Aztec Empire and Purépecha Empire. From the Aztec period until the 19th century, it was part of...

the 1500s, located in (present-day) west-central Mexico the Purépecha people the Purépecha language The term has pejorative connotations of "loathsomeness...

500 BC-1600 AD, Costa Rica Olmec, 1500–400 BC, Veracruz and Tabasco Purépecha Empire or Tarascan state, 1300–1530 AD, Michoacán Teotihuacán, 200 BC–800...

Princess Eréndira of the Purépecha was the princess of the Purépecha from c. 1503–1529. Eréndira was 16–17 when the Spanish came to Mexico. The Tarascan...

Aztec Empire or Purépecha Empire, but Guanajuato was under the control of neither. It was on the northern border of the Purépecha Empire with southern Guanajuato...

rising Aztec Empire and Purépecha Empire were putting pressure onto the Cuitlateco dominion, which eventually brought it to an end. The Purépecha held some...

used during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the XVI. It was famously used by the Purépecha Empire from which many original pieces have been discovered...

on, the Purépechas conquered the region and initiated the establishment of a permanent settlement. They constructed buildings in the Purépecha architectural...

020 speak an indigenous language, mostly Purépecha. Traditional music is mostly influenced by the Purépecha culture with pirecuas and sons, as well as...

Irecha was the title held by the ruler of the Purépecha Empire, which existed from the 14th to 16th centuries in the area of the modern states of Michoacán...

5th and 10th centuries and shows Teotihuacan influence. By 1325, the Purépecha Empire had become dominant in parts of the state, but in 1510, the indigenous...