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The seal of Kuskatan based on the "Lienzo de Tlaxcala" with the symbol of an altepetl. Cuzcatlan (Pipil: Kuskatan; Nahuatl: Cuzcatlan) was a pre-Columbian Nahua state confederation of the Mesoamerican postclassical period that extended from the Paz river to the Lempa river (covering most of western El Salvador); this was the nation that Spanish chroniclers came to call the Pipils or Cuzcatlecos.
Don Juan Antonio de Tagle-Bracho y de la Pascua Calderón, Count of Casa Tagle de Trasierra (1685-March 27, 1750) was a Spanish/Peruvian aristocrat who alongside his uncle the Marquis of Torre Tagle, had high status in Spain and Peru in the 17th century. Juan Antonio was born in Cigüenza (to less than 6 kilometers of Ruiloba) on 1685.
Tepeticpac was one of the four altepetl (polities) that made up the confederation of Tlaxcala in pre-Columbian Mexico. It was the northwest-most altepetl, located west of the Atzompa river and north of Quiahuiztlan, and the first of the four major Tlaxcalan cities to be founded. The site is in the present day state of Tlaxcala in central Mexico.
The Diocese of Tlaxcala (Latin: Dioecesis Tlaxcalensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico.It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles, [1] which was itself officially named the "Diocese of Tlaxcala" until 1903 (founded in 1519 and so named in 1525, the oldest diocese in Mexico). [2]
Xicotencatl I or Xicotencatl the Elder (c. 11 House (1425) – c. 4 Rabbit (1522) [1]) was a long-lived teuctli (elected official) of Tizatlan, a Nahua altepetl (city-state) within the Confederacy of Tlaxcala, in what is now Mexico.
The "Tlaxcala Codex" a largely pictorial section, with both Spanish and Nahuatl captions. Another key source for Tlaxcalan history is the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, a colonial-era pictorial codex, produced in the second half of the sixteenth century. It was created at the request of the cabildo of the city of Tlaxcala.
Famous members include Don Luis Sánchez de Tagle, 1st Marquess of Altamira who was once the most influential and richest man in New Spain, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle known as the "Father of Tequila" and first Empress of Mexico, Empress Ana Maria, who is the great great great grandniece of Don Luis Sánchez de Tagle. The holders of the title ...
Xicotencatl II Axayacatl, also known as Xicotencatl the Younger (died 1521), was a prince and warleader, probably with the title of Tlacochcalcatl, [citation needed] of the pre-Columbian state of Tlaxcala at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.