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The Tlaxcallans, or Tlaxcaltecs, are an indigenous Nahua people who originate from Tlaxcala, Mexico. The Confederacy of Tlaxcala was instrumental in overthrowing the Aztec Empire in 1521, alongside conquistadors from the Kingdom of Spain. The Tlaxcallans remained allies of the Spanish for 300 years until the Independence of Mexico in 1821.
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Tlaxcala (Classical Nahuatl: Tlaxcallān [t͡ɬaʃˈkalːaːn̥] ⓘ, 'place of maize tortillas') was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico.. During the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Tlaxcaltecs allied with the Spanish Empire against their hated enemies, the Aztecs, supplying a large contingent for and sometimes most of the Spanish-led army that eventually destroyed the ...
An overview of the Nahuas of colonial Central Mexico can be found in the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples ... Tlaxcala from 1885-1911. [91] Indigenous ...
Indigenous peoples in Tlaxcala (2 C) T. People from Tlaxcala City (13 P) Pages in category "People from Tlaxcala" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of ...
The word tlahuelpuchi derives from the Nahuatl tlāhuihpochtli (plural tlātlāhuihpochtin), a compound of tlāhuia, "to light up or illuminate" and pōchtli, which can mean "haze", "left", "southern" or "youth" (as in compounds like tēlpōchtli, young man).
Tlaxcalans and a Spaniard (left) fighting against Chichimecas. San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala was a Tlaxcalan municipality in what is now the Mexican state of CoaSan Esteban was the northernmost of the six Tlaxcalan colonies established in 1591 at the behest of the Viceroy of New Spain, Luis de Velasco; its founders came from Tizatlan.
Indigenous peoples in Tlaxcala (2 C) Indigenous peoples in Veracruz ... Pages in category "Indigenous peoples in Mexico" The following 95 pages are in this category ...