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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.