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tlaxcala

/tlɑˈskɑ.lə/

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What does tlaxcala mean?

proper noun

  1. An indigenous Mesoamerican polity in what is now Mexico.
  2. A province of New Spain.
  3. A state of Mexico.
More meanings (3)

proper noun

  1. The capital city of the state of Tlaxcala.
  2. Until 1903, a Roman Catholic diocese; now the archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles.
  3. A Roman Catholic diocese erected in 1959.

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/tlɑˈskɑ.lə/

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Tezcatlipoca, the tutelar deity of Tezcuco; Huitzilopochtli, the tutelar deity of Mexico; Camaxtli, the tutelar deity of Tlaxcala; Quetzalcohuatl, the tutelar deity of Cholula.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873