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List of conflicts in Central America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ6613215 ↗
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Costa Rica

1921 War of Coto (against Panama)

1948 Costa Rican Civil War

Guatemala

1524 — 1697 Spanish conquest of Guatemala

1530 Alvarado enslaves the Mayan kingdoms of Cakchiquel, Mam, and Ixil.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of conflicts in Central America” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.