Nojpetén (also spelled Noh Petén, and also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. It was located on an island...

Tayasal is a Maya archaeological site located in present-day Guatemala. It was a large Maya city with a long history of occupation. Tayasal is a corruption...

from 1519 to 1525, and was deified after his death by the Itza of the Tayasal region under the name of Tziminchác. Acquired by Cortés in 1519, this elegant...

known as Tayasal as their capital. They called it Nojpetén, (noj peten, literally "Great Island" in the Itza language). The Spanish called it Tayasal, possibly...

northern Guatemala, is notable as where the last independent Maya city, Tayasal (or Noh Petén), held out against the Spanish until 1697. Other large lakes...

that the region mostly had small hamlets separated by thick forest, with Tayasal being the only sizable inhabited city they observed. After Cortés' expedition...

(Guatemala) Xpuhil Uaxactún (Guatemala) Dzibanche Tikal (Guatemala) Kohunlich Nakum (Guatemala) Mutul (Guatemala) Tayasal (Guatemala) Naranjo (Belize)...

"great island" in Itza'. The early Spanish accounts referred to it as Tayasal, derived from the Nahuatl tah itza ("place of the Itzá"). The Itza' were...

Elena de la Cruz by a causeway. Guatemala portal Geography of Guatemala Tayasal Spanish conquest of Petén La isla de Flores Accessed on March 31, 2019...

españoles, 'in the last years before the [1697] arrival of the Spanish [to Tayasal],' the latter purportedly seeking to conquer the former. This is naturally...