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calmecactlaca.

Headword: 
calmecactlaca.
Principal English Translation: 

this term is used in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca to refer to one group of the Tolteca Chichimecas; the other was called the "calpolleque" [calpulleque would be another spelling] (sixteenth century Quauhtinchan)

Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 147.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yeuantin y yn calmecactlaca yn tepeuani yn acico yn tlachiualtepec yn Chollolan = Ellos son los calmecactlaca, los conquistadores que llegaron a Tlachiualtepec a Cholollan. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 122, 147.

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