Quitu culture
The Shyris were a people which shall be founded by the overthrow of the people of Quitus the controversial Reino de Quito in Ecuador today and the mid-15th century was conquered by the Incas. This is clear from the Historia del Reino de Quito, the Jesuit Juan de Velasco and was taken from the stories of the indigenous population, which regarded the legends as facts. A century ago, Velasco were challenged assertions by the Ecuadorian historian Federico González Suárez and subsequently disproved by Jacinto Jijón y Caamano, also an Ecuadorian historian, based on archaeological studies of this era.
The Legend
The Shyris ( Shiris, Schyris or Scyris ) initially called themselves Caras and arrived in balsa sailing boats on the Ecuadorian coast ( in the province of Manabí ), where they gave the Bahía de Caráquez her name. The archeology confirms that many immigrants landed with balsa sailing boats on the Ecuadorian coast, in the provinces of Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas, possibly from Central America.
Establishment of Caran
The Caras founded a city, Caran, on the banks of a river called Chone. After some time their leader decided to move north, where the people came across the Río Esmeraldas in the present province of Esmeraldas. The Caras called this leader " Shyri ", ie supreme warlord. The word Shyri still exists today in the region around Quito and has in the indigenous population, the importance "Lord." The Shyri wore on the forehead was a large emerald in a gold headband as a sign of his power.
Victory over the Quitus and foundation of Shyri Dynasty
By drove up the Río Esmeraldas, reached the Caras in the northern Ecuadorian Andes. The Pichincha province was inhabited in this era of the Quitus, a nation that has been badly governed and the Shyri from Caran and Caras, called by the Quitus Shyris, could easily subdue. Shyri, the leader of the Caras, founded a dynasty and became known as Shyri de Caran or Shyri Caran I., to distinguish it from the subsequent kings who wore the same founder title.
Expansion and establishment of the Reino de Quito
The following Shyrikönige submitted more peoples like the Cayambi, Otavalo, and Huaca Tus, expanded to the field of Quillacingas and defeated in the south of Latacunga and Ambato peoples. They also tried unsuccessfully to defeat the mighty kings of the Puruhá.
By the year 1300 11 Shyri Caran had ruled. Shyri Caran XI. , The old felt and had neither a son nor a nephew who could take over the throne succession, struck the king of Puruhá, Condorazo, the marriage of his daughter with Toa Duchicela ago, the Prince of Puruhá. This should succeed him after his death and unite the two kingdoms. To make this possible, changed Shyri caran XI. the law of the dynasty and appointed Princess Toa before the assembled nobles of the kingdom to the legitimate heir to the throne. By mutual agreement they decided her marriage to Duchicela.
After the death of Shyri de Quito Duchicela reigned until the year 1370 Quito Empire ( in the northern Ecuadorian Andes ) and the Puruhá Empire ( in the central Ecuadorian Andes ), while Condoraso his father abdicated and retired to a hill to which he gave his name. Duchicela was entitled Duchicela - Shyri XII. or simply Rey de Quito. During his reign, the Cañaris and other peoples from the southern Ecuadorian Andes for fear of the invasion of the Inca at the Reino de Quito joined.
He was followed Atauqui ( Autachi ) as Duchicela - Shyri XIII. , Whose reign ( 1370-1430 ) was largely unereignisreich.
Atauquis successor was his desire and his vassals his second son, Hualcopo. He was entitled Duchicela Shyri XIV reigned he started peacefully, had to around 1450 but an invasion of the Inca Túpac Yupanqui under beaten.
The most important Andean peoples who were integrated at the moment of conquest by the Incas in the Reino de Quito were the following: Pasty, Quillacingas, Tulcanes, Huacas, Caranquis, Pimampiros, Otavalo, Cayambis, Cochasquies, Quitus, Panzaleos, Latacungas, Mochas, Puruháes, Chimbos, Cañaris, Tomebambas, Paitas, Zarzas, Huancabambas and Ayabaca.