Polity Menceyato of whole Tenerife

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Was a Guanche native kingdom that controlled the whole island of Tenerife. It fragmented in several successor states around 1400.

Establishment

  • January 1348: Betzenuriga becomes the sole king of Tenerife.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1401: The menceyatos emerged as such at the end of the fourteenth century after the division of the island into nine groups at the death or old age of the last unique mencey in Tenerife.

Selected Sources

  • Farrujia de la Rosa, A.J. (2013): An Archaeology of the Margins: Colonialism, Amazighity and Heritage Management in the Canary Islands, Springer Science & Business Media, p.74