The island capital on Lake Petén Itzá — visited by Cortés in 1525 and left unconquered for another 172 years.
Stormed by Martín de Ursúa's waterborne assault on 13 March 1697 — the last independent Maya kingdom to fall.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Itza Kingdom (Nojpetén) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1200 · 1660.
The definitive scholarly account of the Itza kingdom and the 1697 fall of Nojpetén, built on extensive archival research; the single best source for this polity in this period.
Jones's study of the southeastern Yucatan frontier and the long Maya resistance that shielded the interior before 1697.
Archaeological and ethnohistorical study of the Itza's chief rivals on the Petén lakes, essential for understanding who actually held the eastern lakes versus the Itza core.
A focused multi-author volume integrating documentary and excavation evidence specifically on the Itza polity, its settlement, and its political geography.
The classic early synthesis (Peabody Museum) of the colonial sources on Itza independence and conquest; dated but a foundational narrative still widely cited.