Tecoaque
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thumb|right|300px|Tecoaque, western Tlaxcala state. Tecoaque is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, located in western Tlaxcala state, central Mexico, close to Calpulalpan. The site was inhabited by the Acolhua, one of the three ethnic groups making up the Aztec Empire (their capital being Tetzcohco, one of the three seats of Aztec power). Tecoaque had many white-stucco temples and was the home to approximately 5,000 people, mostly priests and farmers.
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- Tentative World Heritage Site
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- Etymology
- Site description
- World Heritage status
- 1520 capture of Spanish civilians
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thumb|right|300px|Tecoaque, western Tlaxcala state. Tecoaque is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, located in western Tlaxcala state, central Mexico, close to Calpulalpan. The site was inhabited by the Acolhua, one of the three ethnic groups making up the Aztec Empire (their capital being Tetzcohco, one of the three seats of Aztec power). Tecoaque had many white-stucco temples and was the home to approximately 5,000 people, mostly priests and farmers.
== Etymology == The name is a colonial transcription of the Nahuatl Tēcuahqueh, meaning both "they ate people" and "people eaters". It consists of tē-, the indefinite object prefix for people; cuah, the past / participle form of the verb cua (to eat), meaning "ate" / "eating"; and the plural suffix -queh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tecoaque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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