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Nojpetén
Nojpetén (also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom, located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the modern department of Petén in northern Guatemala.〔Rice and Rice 2009, p. 11.〕 The island is now occupied by the modern town of Flores, the capital of the Petén department.〔Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 616.〕 Nojpetén had defensive walls built upon the low ground of the island; they may have been hastily constructed by the Itza at a time when they felt threatened either by the encroaching Spanish or by other Maya groups.〔Rice et al 2009, p. 129.〕
==Etymology==
Writing many years after his journey across Petén, conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo called the city ''Tayasal''; this appears to have been a hispanicisation of the Itza language ''ta itza'' ("at the place of the Itza"). The Itza king Kan Ek' referred to the city by the name Nojpetén when he spoke to the Spanish in 1698.〔Rice 2009a, p. 43.〕 Nojpetén, from the Itza ''noj peten'', means "great island".〔Reina 1966, p. 20.〕
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