ITZA  , an See also:

• AMERICAN

American-See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• PEOPLE

people of Mayan stock, inhabiting the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country around See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Peten in See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• GUATEMALA (sometimes incorrectly written GUATIMALA)
• GUATEMALA, or GUATEMALA LA NUEVA (i.e. " New Guatemala," sometimes written Nueva Guatemala, and formerly Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala)

Guatemala . Chichen-Itza, among the most wonderful of the ruined cities.of See also:

• YUCATAN

Yucatan, was the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Itzas . Thence, according to their traditions they removed, on the breaking up of the Mayan See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom in 1420, to an See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the lake where another See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was built . See also:

• CORTES
• CORTES, HERNAN

Cortes met them in 1525, but they preserved their See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence till 1697, when the Spaniards destroyed the city and temples, and a library of sacred books, written in See also:

• HIEROGLYPHICS (Gr. iepos, sacred, and'yXv ni, carving)

hieroglyphics on bark fibre . The Itzas were one of the eighteen semi-See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

• MAYA

Maya states, whose incessant internecine See also:

• WARS

wars at length brought about the dismemberment of the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire of Xibalba and the destruction of Mayan See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization .