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Palenque
Palenque Pa*len"que, n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

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- Palenque (Spanish pronunciation: [pa'leŋke]; Yucatec Maya: Bàakʼ [ɓaːkʼ]), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha ("big water" or "big waters")...
- by escaped slaves as a refuge in the seventeenth century. Of the many palenques of escaped enslaved Africans that existed previously San Basilio is the...
- Look up Palenque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. Palenque may also...
- many of them fled inland and created walled cities known as palenques. Some of these palenques grew very large, holding hundreds of people, and they all...
- Palenque is a city and muni****lity in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. The city was named almost 200 years before the nearby Mayan ruins...
- Taco Palenque is a Mexican cuisine restaurant chain in Texas & Nuevo León. The restaurant is headquartered in Laredo, Texas and was established in 1987...
- Great (March 24, 603 – August 29, 683), was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque in the Late classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. He...
- Palenque railway station (Spanish: Estación de Palenque, referred to as Pakal Ná (Palenque) by Tren Interoceánico, is a railway station located between...
- Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, such villages or camps were called palenques. Its inhabitants are palenqueros. They spoke various Spanish-African-based...
- Colombia, black people are recognized as 3 official groups: the Raizals, the Palenques and other Afro-Colombians. Africans were enslaved in the early 16th century...