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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ITZA , an See also:

American-See also:Indian See also:people of Mayan stock, inhabiting the See also:country around See also:Lake Peten in See also:northern See also:Guatemala. Chichen-Itza, among the most wonderful of the ruined cities.of See also:Yucatan, was the See also:capital of the Itzas. Thence, according to their traditions they removed, on the breaking up of the Mayan See also:kingdom in 1420, to an See also:island in the lake where another See also:city was built. See also:Cortes met them in 1525, but they preserved their See also:independence till 1697, when the Spaniards destroyed the city and temples, and a library of sacred books, written in See also:hieroglyphics on bark fibre. The Itzas were one of the eighteen semi-See also:independent See also:Maya states, whose incessant internecine See also:wars at length brought about the dismemberment of the See also:empire of Xibalba and the destruction of Mayan See also:civilization.

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