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Estimated paths of the Pipil migration to El Salvador [3] Indigenous accounts recorded by Spanish chronicler Gonzalo Francisco de Oviedo suggest that the Pipil of El Salvador migrated from present-day Mexico to their current locations beginning around the 8th century A.D. They traveled from current day central Mexico to the Gulf coast.
Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America.It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family. [9] Before Spanish colonization it was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America, most notably El Salvador and Nicaragua, but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador. [3]
The seal of Kuskatan based on the "Lienzo de Tlaxcala" with the symbol of an altepetl. Cuzcatlan (Pipil: Kuskatan; Nahuatl: Cuzcatlan) was a pre-Columbian Nahua state confederation of the Mesoamerican postclassical period that extended from the Paz river to the Lempa river (covering most of western El Salvador); this was the nation that Spanish chroniclers came to call the Pipils or Cuzcatlecos.
The Battle of Acajutla took place on June 8, 1524, between the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado and the standing army of Cuzcatlan Pipils, an indigenous Nahua state, in the neighborhood of present-day Acajutla, near the coast of western El Salvador.
On 25 January 1932, reinforcements under Calderón arrived in Sonsonate and began reprisals against peasants, especially against ethnic Pipils, in western El Salvador, indiscriminately killing thousands of civilians in the process. [58] In several towns, the entire male population was gathered in the town's center and killed by machine gun fire.
Regardless of whether the U.S. and El Salvador reach an agreement, the offer is bringing renewed attention to the Central American country’s flagship prison, the 40,000-inmate capacity Centro de ...
Before the Spanish conquest, the area that is known as El Salvador was composed of three indigenous states and several principalities.In central El Salvador were the indigenous inhabitants, the Pipils, or the Pipiles, a tribe of nomadic Nahua people that were settled there for a long time.
El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its mega-jail. The deal was announced after US Secretary of State Marco ...