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Spanish Conquest of Itzá

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Petén · Guatemala

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Spanish conquest of the last independent Maya kingdom, Itzá. Located on Lake Petén Itzá, Itzá had evaded Spanish control for nearly 180 years before final subjugation.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Itzá Maya kingdom

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Spanish Conquest of Itzá (1697). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-spanish-conquest-maya-itza-1697 · Sources & methodology