English Dictionary

Tlaxcala

/tlɑːsˈkɑːlə/

name

(history) An indigenous Mesoamerican polity in what is now Mexico. / (history) A province of New Spain. / A state of Mexico. / The capital city of the state of Tlaxcala.

Tlaxcala is a beautiful city in Mexico.

意味（1）

(history) An indigenous Mesoamerican polity in what is now Mexico.

A more formidable enemy still was the little republic of Tlascala, lying midway between the Mexican Valley and the coast.

意味（2）

(history) A province of New Spain.

Tlascala, a province of New Spain, in the audience of Mexico; bounded on the N by Panuco, on the E by the gulf of Mexico, on the S by Guaxica and the Pacific Ocean, and on the W by the audience of Mexico.

意味（3）

A state of Mexico.

意味（4）

The capital city of the state of Tlaxcala.

Tlascala, a town of New Spain, capital of a province of the same name.

意味（5）

(Catholicism, history) Former name (until 1903) of a Roman Catholic diocese; now the archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles.

The Biſhopricke of Tlaſcala, which by another name is called de los Angeles, between the Archbiſhopricke of Mexico, and the Biſhopricke of Guaxaca, if of 100. leagues, and more in length, from the Coaſt of the South to that of the North, and betwixt the confines of the Archbiſhopricke, and of Guaxaca 80. and as many in breadth, by the Coaſt of the North sea, and no more then 18. or 20. by that of the South.

意味（6）

(Catholicism) A Roman Catholic diocese erected in 1959.