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Location of Yucatan map.

 

Map of the Yucatan peninsula 1910s.

Map of the Yucatán Peninsula, c. 1910

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Yucatán /

Yucatán Peninsula

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Yucatan coat of arms.

 

Yucatan coat of arms.

 

Spaniards and Maya Along the Coast of Yucatán

"When the Spaniards discovered this land, they asked the Indian chief ... 'what do you call it?' The Indians, who did not understand, said uic athan, which means: 'what are you saying? ... we do not understand you.' And then the Spaniard said, 'they call it Yucatan....'"

(A. de Ciudad Real, Tratado Crioso y Docto de las Grandezas de la Nueva España, UNAM, 1993 [1586]: II: 320)

quoted in Ancient Mexico & Central America, Susan Toby Evans
(Thames & Hudson, 2008, p. 515)

 

Map of archaeological sites in Yucatan.

archaeology sites: mayaruins.com -- Barbara McKenzie

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