Major conflict1527 – 1546 · 19 years

Spanish Conquest of Yucatán

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Yucatán · Mexico

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Protracted Spanish conquest of Yucatán under Francisco de Montejo. Maya resistance was fierce and prolonged, with final subjugation taking nearly 20 years of hard fighting.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Maya city-states

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Ake1528
Battle of Chichen Itza1531

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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