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  2. Zapotec civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Zapotecs were a sedentary culture living in villages and towns, in houses constructed with stone and mortar. They recorded the principal events in their history by means of hieroglyphics , and in warfare they made use of a cotton armour.

  3. Zapotec peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Zapotecs call themselves Bën Za, which means “The People.”. For decades it was believed that the exonym Zapotec came from the Nahuatl tzapotēcah (singular tzapotēcatl), which means "inhabitants of the place of sapote".

  4. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland - Wikipedia

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    In Poland, the Lusatian culture, which spanned the Bronze and Iron Ages, became particularly prominent. The most famous archeological discovery from that period is the Biskupin fortified settlement that represented early-Iron-Age Lusatian culture. [6] Bronze objects were brought to Poland around 2300 BC from the Carpathian Basin.

  5. History of Oaxaca - Wikipedia

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    By 500 BC, these valleys were mostly inhabited by the Zapotecs, with the Mixtecs on the eastern side. These two groups would be in near constant conflict until the end of the pre-Hispanic period. [4] Archeological evidence indicates that between 750 and 1521, there may have been population peaks of as high as 2.5 million. [3]

  6. List of shtetls - Wikipedia

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    Town survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Shklow: שקלאָװ Shklov 2,132 (1939) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Slonim: סלאָנים Slonim 10,000+ (1940) City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Slutsk: סלוצק Slutzk 10,264 (1897) City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated.

  7. Pre-Columbian era - Wikipedia

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    The Zapotecs were a civilization that thrived in the Oaxaca Valley from the late 6th century BCE until their downfall at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors. The city of Monte Albán was an important religious center for the Zapotecs and served as the capital of the empire from 700 BCE to 700 CE.

  8. Cempoala - Wikipedia

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    The site was inhabited mainly by Totonacs, Chinantecas and Zapotecs. It was one of the most important Totonac settlements during the postclassical Mesoamerican period [1] and the capital of the kingdom of Totonacapan. It is located one kilometer from the shore of the Actopan River and six kilometres from the coast.

  9. Territorial evolution of Poland - Wikipedia

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    On May 20, 1945, in Trstena an agreement for a return to the 1938 borders of Poland was signed and the following day the Czechoslovak border guards moved to the old Czechoslovak border. At several places there were fights between Polish and Czechoslovak militias, but the situation calmed with the arrival of Polish troops on July 17, 1945. [ 131 ]