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Inca   /ˈɪŋkə/   Listen
Inca

noun
1.
A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family).
2.
A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru.  Synonyms: Incan, Inka.
3.
The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s.  Synonym: Inka.





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"Inca" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Andes were also the seat of an advanced Indian culture. At the time of the Spanish conquest the greater part of what is now Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile had come under the sway of the Incas, the "people of the sun". The Inca power centered in the Peruvian city of Cuzco and on the shores of Lake Titicaca, which lies twelve thousand feet above sea-level. In this region of magnificent scenery the traveler views with astonishment the ruins ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER
... of the earth, jewelled and plumed were we. I was Lord of the Inca race, and she was Queen of the Sea. Under the stars beyond our stars where the new-forged meteors glow Hotly we stormed Valhalla, a ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling


Words linked to "Inca" :   Quechua, Kechua, swayer, ruler, Huayna Capac, community, Peru, Republic of Peru


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