Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico. Tlaxcala was completely surrounded by Aztec lands, leading to intermittent armed conflict between the two powers as the latter attempted to absorb the former into its empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 13,600 residents
- Description: Nahua state
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Tlaxcala”, “Tlaxcala City”, and “Tlaxcala de Xicohtencatl”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Tlahuicole.
Estadio Tlahuicole
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tlaxcala and Ocotlán.
Tlaxcala
Photo: Cessvilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tlaxcala is the capital of the state of Tlaxcala. The city still has many of its old colonial structures including the former Franciscan monastery, as well as newer civic structures such as the Xicohtencatl Theatre. It was home to 90,000 people in 2010.
Ocotlán
Town
Chiautempan
Photo: comefilm, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chiautempan is a small city of about 53,000 residents in the state of Tlaxcala in Central Mexico. The city is also known as Santa Ana Chiautempan, or most commonly, Santa Ana.
Tlaxcala
- Categories: historical country and locality
- Location: Tlaxcala Municipality, Tlaxcala, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.31671° or 19° 19′ 0″ northLongitude
-98.23861° or 98° 14′ 19″ westPopulation
13,600Elevation
2,235 metres (7,333 feet)Open location code
76F38Q86+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 268380974OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3815418Wikidata ID
Q614072
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tlaxcala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تلاكسكالا”
- Asturian: “Tlaxcala”
- Balinese: “Tlaxcala”
- Bengali: “টেলাস্কালা”
- Catalan: “República de Tlaxcala”
- Chinese: “特拉斯卡拉聯邦”
- Chinese: “特拉斯卡拉邦聯”
- Czech: “Tlaxcala”
- Czech: “Tlaxcalané”
- Czech: “Tlaxcaltékové”
- Danish: “Tlaxcala”
- Dutch: “Tlaxcala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تلاكسكالا”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Tlakskala”
- Finnish: “Tlaxcala”
- French: “Tlaxcala”
- Greek: “Τλάξκαλα”
- Gujarati: “લેક્સ્કાલા”
- Hindi: “तलक्सकाला”
- Indonesian: “Tlaxcala”
- Italian: “Tlaxcala”
- Japanese: “トラスカラ王国”
- Kannada: “ಟಿಲಾಕ್ಸ್ಕಾಲಾ”
- Korean: “틀락스칼라”
- Korean: “틀락스칼란”
- Latvian: “Tlaskala”
- Lithuanian: “Tlaskala”
- Malay: “Tlaxcala”
- Marathi: “तलस्कला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tlaxcala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tlaxcala”
- Polish: “Tlaxcala (miasto prekolumbijskie)”
- Polish: “Tlaxcala”
- Portuguese: “Confederação de Tlaxcala”
- Portuguese: “Tlaxcala”
- Russian: “Тлакскала”
- Russian: “Тласкала-де-Хикотенкатль”
- Russian: “Тласкала”
- Russian: “Тлашкала”
- Serbian: “Тласкала”
- Serbian: “Тлашкала”
- Sinhala: “ට්ලක්ස්කළා”
- Slovenian: “Tlaxcala”
- Spanish: “República de Tlaxcallan”
- Spanish: “Señorío de Tlaxcala”
- Spanish: “Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl”
- Swedish: “Tlaxcala”
- Tamil: “டீலாஸ்கால”
- Telugu: “ట్లాస్క్యాల”
- Thai: “ตลัซกาลา”
- Turkish: “Tlaşkala”
- Turkish: “Tlaxcala (uygarlık)”
- Ukrainian: “Тласкала”
- Ukrainian: “Тлашкала”
- Urdu: “تلازکالا”
- Vietnamese: “Tlaxcala”
- “Tlahtoloyan Tlaxcallan”
- “Tlaxkallan”
- “Tlaxkallan Altepeyotl”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de la Constitución and Museo de Arte de Tlaxcala.
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