Nicoyan pottery.Mesoamerican-style Nicoyan pottery at the Los Angeles Art Museum.Ceremonial Nicoyan metate
The Kingdom of Nicoya (from Nahuatl: Nekok Yaotl), also called Cacicazgo or Lordship of Nicoya, was an indigenous nation that comprised much of the territory of the current Guanacaste Province, in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Its political, economic and religious center was the city of Nicoya, located on the peninsula of the same name, which depends on several provinces located on both banks of the Gulf of Nicoya, as well as numerous tributary villages. In the 16th century, prior to the arrival of Europeans, Nicoya was the most important chiefdom of the North Pacific of present-day Costa Rica.[1]
^Molina Jiménez, Iván (1997). Historia de Costa Rica: breve, actualizada y con ilustraciones (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. p. 148. ISBN 9977674116. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
The KingdomofNicoya (from Nahuatl: Nekok Yaotl), also called Cacicazgo or Lordship ofNicoya, was an indigenous nation that comprised much of the territory...
annexation of the Partido de Nicoya to Costa Rica is a historical event that refers to the incorporation of the territory ofNicoya (most of what is today's...
enemy of the also vast KingdomofNicoya, of ethnic chorotega unrelated to the huétares but with the Oto-Mangueans instead and that represented other of the...
candidates.[citation needed] The mánkeme (king) of the KingdomofNicoya was elected by a council of elders known as the monéxico.[citation needed] French...
territory of the Kingdomof Guatemala into political parts. One of these was the Partido de Nicoya. In 1820, upon the administrative division of the Province...
eastern shore of the Gulf ofNicoya, the Huetares in Abangares and the Nicarao in Bagaces. The first church was built out of grass in Nicoya in the 17th...
Leucosyrinx nicoya is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Fossils of this marine...
became the second emperor of the Inca. Under the leadership of Manco Cápac, the Inca formed the small city-state Kingdomof Cusco (Quechua Qusqu', Qosqo)...
León. On March 3, 1824, the government of the State of Costa Rica officially proposed to the municipality ofNicoya its voluntary incorporation into the...
Chimor (also Kingdomof Chimor or Chimú Empire) was the political grouping of the Chimú culture. The culture arose about 900 CE, succeeding the Moche culture...
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city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies and empires. These societies had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture...
of Monte Albán has monumental buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods, including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albán was one of...
to take Motecuzoma prisoner under threat of force. Motecuzoma continued to run the kingdom as a prisoner of Cortés for several months. A second, larger...
the island of Coiba and infrequently on the mainland of Panama, and in Costa Rica in isolated regions on the Pacific Coast; the Nicoya Peninsula the...
de Espinosa sails west along the west coasts of modern Panama and Costa Rica as far as the Gulf ofNicoya. 1519–22 – Ferdinand Magellan's expedition reaches...
problems and conditions of archeology in Brazil. Brazilian archeology proposes to combat Eurocentrism in the scientific production of the area in the country...
Santiago is home of Start-Up Chile, the most important government sponsored accelerator worldwide. Silicon Paradise: Southern Nicoya Peninsula: Santa...
and the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Aztecs, Purepecha and Nicoya in Mesoamerica. The Olmec civilization was the first Mesoamerican civilization...
"small scale artisanal coastal" fishing and is most common in the Gulf ofNicoya. Costa Rica also charges licensing fees for commercial fishing fleets...
Quest for Security. University of California Press. doi:10.2307/jj.5232953. ISBN 978-0-520-33160-0. "The Himalayan Kingdoms: Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal". International...
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