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Tolan, or
Tolán is the name used for the capital city of two
empires of
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; first for
Teotihuacan, and later for the
Toltec capital of
Tula.
The name means "Place of
Cattails" in the
Nahuatl language, with the figurative sense of a densely populated "place where people are thick as reeds". Names with the same meaning were used in
Maya and other native Mexican languages.
Teotihuacan seems to have been the first city known by this name. After the collapse of the Teotihuacan empire, central
Mexico broke into various petty states. The Toltec created the first sizable Mexican empire after the fall of Teotihuacan, and their capital was referred to by the same name as a reference to the earlier greatness of Teotihuacan.
In
Aztec accounts at the time of the arrival of the
Conquistadores, Teotihuacan and the Toltec capital sometimes seem to be confused and conflated.
The epithet "Tollan" was also sometimes applied to any great
metropolis or capital.
Cholula, for example, was sometimes called "Tollan Cholula", and the Aztec capital of
Tenochtitlán was likewise given the title "Tollan". The
Mixtec translation of this,
Ñuu Co'yo is still the Mixtec name for
Mexico City to this day.
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