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Tollan

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Tollan, 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.

With the collapse of Teotihuacan around 700, the elite nobility,
intellectuals and priests left and "took their gods with them." Some
went South to Cholula and settled in, laying the foundation for a
pyramid bigger than the one at Teotihuacan.

The followers of the Quetzalcoatl order moved west and out of farmland
created Tollan. They were driven out by hostile forces around 850 and
is believed to have traveled to the Yucatan peninsula to create
Chichen-Itza, explaining architectual similarities.
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