Fall of Nojpetén, the last Maya kingdom
The Itza held out almost 180 years after the Aztecs fell
Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya, stood on an island in a lake deep in the Petén jungle, long out of Spanish reach. Only on 13 March 1697 did Martín de Ursúa's force, using a galley built on the shore, storm the city. So fell the last independent Maya kingdom, almost two centuries after first contact with Europeans. The town of Flores stands on the site today.
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The last independent Maya kingdom fell only in 1697, 176 years after Tenochtitlan, when Peter the Great was already ruling Russia.
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