TLAXCALA
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 1034
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
TLAXCALA
, a town of Mexico, capital of a state of the same name, on the Atoyac river, 58 m
.
E. of Mexico city by rail
.
Pop
.
(1900), 2715
.
It is of historic interest in connexion with the conquest of Mexico by Cortes
.
The state- house is its only fine edifice of a political character, and the old bishop's palace its finest building of a religious character
.
Of most historic interest, perhaps, is the See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of San Francisco, the first erected on the American continent, which still contains the vestments, pulpit, font and cedar ceiling brought from Spain in 1521
.
The handsome sanctuary over the holy well of Ocotlan, on a See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
outside the town, is one of the landmarks of the surrounding country
.
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