Kowoj State
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Was a Maya polity, from the Late Postclassic period.
Establishment
- January 1442: The Kowoj were a Maya group who claimed to have migrated from Mayapan, a major city in the Yucatan Peninsula, after its collapse in 1441 AD. They established their own state in the region known as Kowoj State.
Chronology
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1. Spanish wars of colonization in the Americas
Were a series of expeditions and military campaigns by Spanish conquistadores and discoverers to conquer territories in central and southern America.
1.1. Spanish conquest of Guatemala
Was a protracted conflict where Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.
- March 1697: Nojpetén surrendered to the Spanish after a fierce battle.
Disestablishment
- January 1698: The Ko'woj and the Itzá were the last cultures to be conquered in Mesoamerica.