Tlacopan
Sign in to saveTlacopan, 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
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- 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.