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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an extinct Indian people once inhabiting central Colombia.
- noun The extinct Chibchan language of the Chibcha.
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Examples
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At a time of the conquistadors when the New World was being discovered and tales of riches abounded, the ancient Inca Aztec and Chibcha civilisations enjoyed their wondrous riches.
Why Amazon? Martyn Daniels 2008
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At a time of the conquistadors when the New World was being discovered and tales of riches abounded, the ancient Inca Aztec and Chibcha civilisations enjoyed their wondrous riches.
Archive 2008-05-01 Martyn Daniels 2008
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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (14951576), under commission from the government of Santa Marta, moved up the Magdalena River, reached the plateau of Bogotá, defeated and sacked Chibcha chiefdoms, and founded Santa Fe de Bogotá (1538).
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The Chibcha used to feed it to the slaves and wives of dead kings and then bury them alive in the royal tomb.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The Chibcha used to feed it to the slaves and wives of dead kings and then bury them alive in the royal tomb.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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A more macabre use was recorded from the New World, where the Chibcha Indians of highland Colombia administered a close relative of datura to the wives and slaves of dead kings, before burying them alive with their deceased masters.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Chibcha folk-lore, and is represented as an old man who came to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The Chibcha race was virtually exterminated by the Spanish conquerors in their thirst for gold, but in Ecuador, Peru, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Of these the most populous, most important, and best known were the Quichua, whose great empire of Peru, with its capital at Cuzco, dominated the whole region west of the great Cordillera from the Chibcha territory to about the 35th parallel in Chile, with outlying colonies among the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The linguistic stock was scattered over a greater area, and indications even authorize philologists to admit as highly probable a connection between the Chibcha dialects and some of the idioms of Costa Rica.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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