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Tonallan.

Headword: 
Tonallan.
Principal English Translation: 

the former name for Guadalajara

Orthographic Variants: 
Tonala
Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan oncan quiçaco yn tonallan yn axcan ye ytocayocan la ciudad de guadalaxara = and from there reached Tonallan, the place now called the city of Guadalajara.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 186–187.