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Tlacopan, also called Tacuba, (, [t͡ɬaˈkóːpan̥], , 'in the forest of trees') was a Tepanec / Mexica altepetl on the western shore of Lake Texcoco. The site is today the neighborhood of Tacuba, in Mexico City.

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name
Tlacopan
Country.common_name
Tlacopan
Country.common_languages
Classical Nahuatl
Country.religion
Aztec religion
Country.year_start
1428
Country.year_end
1521
Country.event_start
Formation of the Aztec Empire
Country.event_end
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Country.era
Pre-Columbian
Country.image_coat
Tlacopan glyph.svg
Country.symbol_type
Glyph
Country.coa_size
70px
Country.image_map
Lake Texcoco c 1519.png
Country.image_map_caption
This map Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest shows Tlacopan in relation to Tenochtitlan and other cities in the Valley of Mexico.
Country.s1
New Spain

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Culture
  • Rulers of Tlacopan
  • See also
  • References

Tlacopan, also called Tacuba, (, [t͡ɬaˈkóːpan̥], , 'in the forest of trees') was a Tepanec / Mexica altepetl on the western shore of Lake Texcoco. The site is today the neighborhood of Tacuba, in Mexico City.

==Etymology== The name comes from Classical Nahuatl tlacōtl, "stem" or "rod" and -pan, "place in or on" and roughly translates to "place on the rods"),

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tlacopan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.