Significant1523 – 1695 · 172 years
Spanish conquest of Chiapas
Chiapas · Lacandon
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
A protracted Spanish campaign beginning in 1523 to subdue the highland and lowland Maya groups of Chiapas, including the resistant Lacandon, which dragged on into the late 17th century before colonial control was consolidated.
Belligerents2
- Spanish Empire
- Maya polities (Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Lacandon)
ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Spanish conquest of Chiapas
- Restall & Asselbergs, Invading Guatemala
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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