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  2. History of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin , located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.

  3. Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, the Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala began the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) project, [128] known in Spanish as "El Proyecto de la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica", to collect the facts and history of Guatemala's long civil war and confront the truth of those years. On 24 April 1998, REMHI presented the results of its ...

  4. Category:History of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Guatemala history-related lists (7 P) A. Archaeology of Guatemala (3 C, 2 P) E. Historical events in Guatemala (10 C, 1 P) F. Former populated places in Guatemala (1 ...

  5. Tikal - Wikipedia

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    XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2003 (in Spanish). Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala. pp. 635–641. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2011; Means, Philip Ainsworth (1917). History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas . Papers of the Peabody Museum of American ...

  6. History of Guatemala City - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]

  7. List of World Heritage Sites in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Its 1,700-year history spans a period that saw the transition from the Olmec civilization to the emergence of Early Mayan culture. Tak’alik Ab’aj had a primary role in this transition, in part because it was vital to the long-distance trade route that connected the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in today's Mexico to present-day El Salvador.

  8. Spanish conquest of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.

  9. Category:History of Guatemala by topic - Wikipedia

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    Political history of Guatemala (9 C, 3 P) S. Social history of Guatemala (3 C, ...