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    Cusco (redirect from Cuzco, Peru)
    Cusco or Cuzco (Latin American Spanish: [ˈkusko]; Quechua: Qosqo or Qusqu, both pronounced [ˈqɔsqɔ]) is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley...
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    Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkusko]; Quechua: Qusqu suyu [ˈqɔsqɔ ˈsʊjʊ]), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth...
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    The Intendancy of Cuzco (Spanish: Intendencia de Cuzco), also known informally as Cuzco Province (Spanish: Provincia de Cuzco), was one of the territorial...
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  • Look up Cusco or Cuzco in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cusco (also often spelled Cuzco) is the Inca capital in modern Peru and the most populous city...
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    Government of Cuzco (Spanish: Gobierno Regional del Cuzco; GORE Cuzco) is the regional government that represents the Department of Cuzco. It is the body...
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    The Department of Cuzco (Spanish: Departamento de Cuzco) was a department of South Peru, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which...
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    The Cusco school (escuela cuzqueña) or Cuzco school, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire)...
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    Seminary of Cuzco (Spanish: Seminario de Cuzco), is a seminary in charge of preparing priests for the Archdiocese of Cuzco. It is based in Cuzco, Peru, and...
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    Flag of Cusco (redirect from Flag of Cuzco)
    addition to being the city flag and a co-official flag of the Department of Cuzco, a seven-color flag has different uses depending on the context. It is used...
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    Peruvian corn (redirect from Cuzco corn)
    Choclo, also referred to as Peruvian corn or Cuzco corn (after Cuzco, the capital city of the Inca empire), is a large-kernel variety of field corn from...
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    School of Sciences and Arts of Cuzco (Spanish: Colegio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes del Cuzco) is a public school in Cuzco, Peru. According to the Congress...
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    centre for the Inca royalty. When the Spanish conquistadores arrived in Cuzco, they decided to take down the temple and build their Christian cathedral...
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    The Andean University of Cuzco (Spanish: Universidad Andina del Cusco, UAC) is a private university headquartered in Cuzco, Peru. The university was founded...
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    The Battle of Cusco was fought in November 1533 between the Spanish Conquistadors and of the Incas. After executing the Inca Atahualpa on 26 July 1533...
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  • The Cusco Declaration, formally titled Preamble to the Foundation Act of the South American Union, is a two-page declaration of intent signed by 12 South...
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    9, 1970 was a Sunday, and Flight 502 was originally scheduled to depart Cuzco at 8:30 am, but since many of the members of the American group wanted to...
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    The Kingdom of Cusco (sometimes spelled Cuzco and in Quechua Qosqo or Qusqu), also called the Cusco confederation, was a small kingdom based in the Andean...
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     600–1100 AD), centered near the city of Ayacucho. The Wari occupied the Cuzco area for about 400 years. Thus, many of the characteristics of the Inca...
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    history, Tupac Inca "remembered that his father Pachacuti had called city of Cuzco the lion city. He said that the tail was where the two rivers unite which...
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  • held on 25 December, by the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas Province, near Cuzco, in Peru. The practice started in Santo Tomás, the capital of Chumbivilcas...
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    World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1983 under the name of City of Cuzco (Spanish: Ciudad del Cusco), where a selected number of buildings are marked...
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    The National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco) (UNSAAC), also known as Saint...
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    the construction of the Cusco Cathedral. In 1555, the chief magistrate of Cuzco, Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega authorized the construction of buildings...
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    Cuzco [ˈkuθ.ko] is a station on Line 10 of the Madrid Metro, under the Plaza de Cuzco ("Cuzco Place"). It is located in fare Zone A. "Línea 10". Metro...
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    Hemming, The conquest, pp. 185–186. Flickema, Thomas (1981). "The Siege of Cuzco". Revista de Historia de América (92): 21–22. Hemming, John (1973). The...
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    Cuzco (pronounced: KUZ-co) is an unincorporated community in Columbia Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Cuzco was platted in 1905...
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    capital Cuzco, while Atahualpa was in Quito with the main body of the Inca army. Huáscar had himself proclaimed Sapa Inca (i.e. "Only Emperor") in Cuzco, but...
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    which he rebuilt with architects from Cuzco. During this time his father Pachacuti reorganized the Kingdom of Cuzco into the Tahuantinsuyu, the "four provinces"...
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuzco is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus...
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  • Cuzco Quechua (Quechua: Qusqu qhichwa simi) is a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Cuzco and the Cuzco Region of Peru. It is the Quechua variety used...
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