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Diriangén was a native Nicaraguan king who controlled land from
Diriangén was a native Nicaraguan king who controlled land from Diriamba
Diriamba is a city and a municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua, with a population of 64,757 (2020 estimate). It is located 41 km south of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.
Geography
The city's elevation (just above 500 mete ...
in Carazo to the Ochomogo river in Rivas, outside the boundaries of Nicarao's kingdom. It is possible that Diriangen belonged to the Chorotega s/small> people.
Etymology
Diriangén was a portmanteau of the words ''Dirian'' ("people of the hills") — the tribe that he ruled — and ''gen'', an honorific title in theOto-Manguean languages
The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the ...
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Biography
Early life
Diriangén was born in 1497. His mother encouraged him to learn swordsmanship and war tactics throughout his childhood.Rebellion
Spanish explorerGil González Dávila
Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila (b. 1480 – 21 April 1526) was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to explore present-day Nicaragua.
Early career
González Dávila first appears in historical records in 1508, when he ...
had arrived in Nochari in April of 1523 with a fleet of soldiers, with whom he converted the Nahuatl people of Ochomogo, Gotega, Mombacho, Morati, and Nandapia to Catholicism. In response to this, Diriangén arrived in Gotega with an entourage of five trumpeters, five flutists, five hundred men bringing ducks, and sixteen women with golden hatchets and plates. When the Spanish demanded Diriangén and the then subservient chiefs of Nicaragua and Nicoya to be baptized and to renounce their pagan beliefs, Diriangén refused and promised to return in three days. In three days time, he returned with four thousand Dirian and Nagrandano soldiers and forced the Spanish troops to flee southwards. The Spanish regrouped soon after, and destroyed Diriangén's rebel army in less than a day.
Martyrdom
Diriangén remains a popular figure in Nicaraguan nationalism and anti-colonialism.See also
*Spanish conquest of Nicaragua
The Spanish conquest of Nicaragua was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish '' conquistadores'' against the natives of the territory now incorporated into the modern Central American republic of Nicaragua during the colonisation of the Americas. ...
References
16th-century Nicaraguan people {{Nicaragua-bio-stub