Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| [10][11] Although the river passed close to the site during the period of the city's occupation, it has since changed course and now flows 1xc2xa0km (0.6xc2xa0mi) south of the ceremonial centre. | WIKI |
| [12] Quiriguxc3xa1 was built directly over the Motagua Fault and the city suffered damage in ancient times as a result of major earthquakes. | WIKI |
| [15] The population density of the site has been estimated at 400 to 500 per square kilometer (1040 to 1300 per square mile) in the centre of the city during the Late Classic[16] with an estimated peak population of 1200xe2x80x931600;[17] surveys have revealed an average of 130 structures per square kilometer (338 per square mile) at the site, compared with 1449 structures/km2 (3767 per square mile) in central Copxc3xa1n. | WIKI |
| [19] In the 9thxc2xa0century there was a severe decline in population, culminating in the abandonment of the city. | WIKI |
| [24] In addition, maize probably formed an important component in the site's tribute payments to its overlords at Copxc3xa1n, a city that was exhausting its own local resources. | WIKI |
| [36] An early monument records the supervision of a ritual in 480 by the then overlord from Copxc3xa1n, demonstrating Quiriguxc3xa1's continued status as a vassal of that city. | WIKI |
| [22] This coup does not seem to have affected either Copxc3xa1n or Quiriguxc3xa1 physically, there is no evidence that either city was attacked at this time and the victor seems not to have received any detectable tribute. | WIKI |
| The fact that Copxc3xa1n, a much more powerful city than Quiriguxc3xa1, failed to retaliate against its former vassal implies that it feared the military intervention of Calakmul. | WIKI |
| After the king of Copxc3xa1n was sacrificed in 738, Xkuy seems to have become a loyal vassal of Quiriguxc3xa1 and in 762 K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat supervised the accession of "Sunraiser Jaguar" to the subservient city's throne. | WIKI |
| K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat, who had so dramatically changed the destiny of his city, died on 27xc2xa0July 785. | WIKI |
| The city's power already was waning, as evidenced by the two stunted stelae erected during his reign, which indicate that the kingdom no longer had access to the kind of resources needed to produce monuments of a similar quality to those of his predecessors. | WIKI |
| [58][59] However, 810 was also the year when the last hieroglyphic texts were raised at Quiriguxc3xa1, although a reduced level of construction continued in the city centre. | WIKI |
| [80] The acropolis is the largest architectural complex at Quiriguxc3xa1, it lies at the southern limit of the ceremonial centre of the city. | WIKI |
| [46] The enormous stelae at Quirigxc3xa1 originally would have been visible from the Motagua River, which once flowed past the west side of the Great Plaza, announcing the new-found power of the city to passing traders. | WIKI |
| The inscribed property is comprised of 34 hectares of land dedicated exclusively to the conservation of the ancient architecture and the seventeen monuments that were carved between 426 AD and 810 AD and make up this great city. | UNESCO |
| It is known that, at the time of the arrival of the European conquerors, the control of the jade route had been taken over by Nito, a city closer to the Caribbean coast. | UNESCO |
| Although Quirigua has retained ruins and vestiges of dwellings rangingxc2xa0 between AD 200 and AD 900, most of the monuments that ensure Quirigua its world-wide reknown date from the 8th century, the period during which the city was entirely remodelled in accordance with its function as royal residence and administrative centre. | UNESCO |
| The monuments, called stelae, contain hieroglyphic texts describing significant calendar dates, celestial events such as eclipses, passages of Maya mythology and political events, as well as important social and historic events to the development of the city. | UNESCO |