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Inka

Definitions of Inka
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Inca
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    example of:
    community
    a group of people living in a particular local area
  2. noun
    a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
    synonyms: Inca, Incan
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    type of:
    Kechua, Quechua
    a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
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