The Itza are a Maya ethnic group native to the Péten region of northern Guatemala and parts of Belize. The majority of Itza are inhabitants of the city...
Chichén Itzá (often spelled Chichen Itza in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal...
southeast of the PetenItzaKingdom, east of Lacandon territory, and north and west of Manche Chol Territory. The aforementioned Kingdom, in particular...
Empire. The Itzá state continued to train and educate indigenous Maya leaders in the sanctuaries of the southern province, such as Lake PeténItzá. General...
PetenItzakingdom (Jones 1989, p. 319, item no. 2), Chan is meant as a reference to the eponymous ch'ibal or noble house in the PetenItzakingdom (Jones...
arrival of the Spanish, only a few kingdoms remained, such as the PetenItzakingdom, Mam, Kaqchikel, and the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj. On 13 March 1697...
Teotihuacan. The Maya city of Chichen Itza and the distant Toltec capital of Tula had an especially close relationship. The Petén region consists of densely forested...
fourteen lakes runs across the central drainage basin of Petén. The largest lake is Lake PeténItza; it measures 32 by 5 kilometres (19.9 by 3.1 mi). A broad...
with the Spanish as the latter opened a route southwards towards Lake PeténItzá. The Kejache occupied a region that is now crossed by the border between...
under the close political, cultural, or spiritual influence of the PetenItzaKingdom. At least some of the Territory came under Spanish control in 1695...
structures decorated with stucco masks representing gods. Nakbe in the Petén Department of Guatemala is the earliest well-documented city in the Maya...
have been similar and coincident with that which gave rise to the PetenItzaKingdom, i.e. settlement by northerly aristocratic mayors and their households...
to the east of Lake PeténItzá and was said to have been farmed by the inhabitants of Nojpetén, the capital city of the Itzakingdom. The political extent...
from Peten. From there many of them continued northwest, where they conquered the classical Maya city of Uuc Yabnal and renamed it as Chichen Itza. They...
Mopan River in the eastern Petén Basin and neighbouring portions of western Belize, being thereby situated east of the Itza of Nojpetén, south of the Yaxhá...
without pigment. Poecilia petenensis is endemic to the freshwater Lake PeténItzá in Guatemala. Lyons, T.J. (2020). "Poecilia petenensis". The IUCN Red...
This left only the Maya kingdoms of the Petén Basin independent. In 1697, Martín de Ursúa launched an assault upon the Itza capital Nojpetén and the...
during a skirmish between the Yucatec Spanish and the Itza on the west shore of Lake PeténItzá. The Itza high priest AjKin Kan Ekʼ later related that he had...
Bacalar, their efforts being possibly aided by piratical raids, and the PetenItzakingdom. s.d. – s.d.: Peter Wallace founds the first English settlement in...
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