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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COPAN , an See also:

ancient ruined See also:city of western See also:Honduras, near the Guatemalan frontier, and on the right See also:bank of the Rio Copan, a tributary of the Motagua. For an See also:account of its elaborately sculptured See also:stone buildings, which See also:rank among the most celebrated monuments of Mayan See also:civilization, see CENTRAL See also:AMERICA: See also:Archaeology. The city is sometimes regarded as identical with the See also:Indian stronghold which, after a heroic resistance, was stormed by the Spaniards, under Hernando de See also:Chaves, in 1530. It has given its name to the See also:department in which it is situated.

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