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Cuetlaxcoapan.

Headword: 
Cuetlaxcoapan.
Principal English Translation: 

the Nahua name for Puebla de los Angeles, Puebla, Mexico

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuetlaxcouapan
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

(vowel quantities of o and second a not certain.) appears to contain cuetlaxtli, leather, hide.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

hau yntla onpa cuetlaxcouapan namacoz ce peso quimacazque = and if he is hired out in Puebla they will give him 1 peso (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 120–121.

"1513 acaxihuitli yn omotlalli altepetl Cuitlaxcolapan quitlalique tlaxcalteca (f. 9) = "1513 Reed year. The city of Cuetlaxcohuapan was established. The Tlaxcalans established it." Another set of annals mention that the Tlaxcalteca elders did not want the new altepetl, Cuetlaxohuapan, to be established at Tlaxcallan. So, instead, it was established at "Atlatoya." Several annals say the establishment of Cuetlaxcohuapan happened in 1531.
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, pp. 30, 31, 32, 33. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

aun inic noya Cuetlaxcoapan nimotlayecoltito yacaxtol xivitl = y como fui a Cuetlaxcoapan (Puebla) a servir, ya hace como quince años (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 222.

Cuetlaxcoapan = Puebla (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 76–77.

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