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Nicoyan pottery. Mesoamerican-style Nicoyan pottery at the Los Angeles Art Museum. Ceremonial Nicoyan metate. The Kingdom of Nicoya (from Nahuatl: Nekok Yaotl), also called Cacicazgo or Lordship of Nicoya, was an indigenous nation that comprised much of the territory of the current Guanacaste Province, in the North Pacific of Costa Rica.
They were held for two months, and found dead in late May 1996. The circumstances of their kidnapping and death remain controversial; the Armed Islamic Group ( Groupe Islamique Armé , GIA) claimed responsibility for both, but in 2009, retired General François Buchwalter reported that the monks were killed by the Algerian army.
It is possible that the Spanish conquistadors derived the name Nicarao based on the ethnicity of his tribe, which was composed of Pipil-Nicarao people, who were a branch of Nahuas. Andrés de Cereceda, the treasurer of González Dávila's expedition, [ 26 ] wrote in his log the names of the caciques of the villages where gold was collected.
According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, the Nicarao had multiple chiefdoms that were independent from one another. [64] [65] In addition, although these chiefdoms shared the same language, culture, and ethnicity, they were never unified under a single political entity as Kuskatan was in present-day El Salvador.
For the 2011 census, Nicoya had a population of 24,833 inhabitants. [7]In early 2006, a group of researchers led by adventure writer Dan Buettner and supported by National Geographic Magazine, the National Institute on Aging, and Allianz Healthcare, designated Nicoya as a Blue Zone.
In Aztec mythology, the Cihuateteo (/ s iː ˌ w ɑː t ɪ ˈ t eɪ oʊ /; Classical Nahuatl: Cihuātēteoh, in singular Cihuātēotl) or "Divine Women", were the spirits of women who died in childbirth. [1] They were likened to the spirits of male warriors who died in violent conflict, because childbirth was conceptually equivalent to battle ...
Nicoya Peninsula seen from space (false color) The Nicoya Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Nicoya) is a peninsula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.It is divided into two provinces: Guanacaste Province in the north, and the Puntarenas Province in the south.
The Sicarii [a] (“Knife-wielder”, “dagger-wielder”, “dagger-bearer”; from Latin sica = dagger) were a group of Jewish Zealots, who, in the final decades of the Second Temple period, conducted a campaign of targeted assassinations and kidnappings of Roman officials in Judea and of Jews who collaborated with the Roman Empire.