Menceyato de Adeje
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Guanches
Guanches is the name given to the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago sometime between 1000 BCE and 100 BCE or perhaps earlier...
(native kingdoms) that had divided the island of Tenerife
Tenerife
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(Canary Islands
Canary Islands
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, Spain
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) before the arrival of the conquering Spaniards and occupied the present day towns of Guía de Isora
Guía de Isora
Guía de Isora is a municipality in the western part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife . Guía de Isora is north of the Tenerife Sur suburb...
, Adeje and Vilaflor in the southwest of Tenerife.
The kings of Adeje were Betzenuriya, Pelicar, Tinerfe
Tinerfe
Tinerfe "the Great", legendary hero who was a guanche mencey of the island of Tenerife .He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castilla...
and Sunta.