Tlalmanalco. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

Tlalmanalco.

Principal English Translation:

an important altepetl in the Chalco region
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), 236.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

patientive noun from tlālli, mana to flatten, even out, plus -co. 236-237

Attestations from sources in English:

Today, Tlalmanalco is a municipality in the far southeastern corner of the State of Mexico. It has colonial Franciscan architecture, including a Capilla Abierta (open chapel), and a Museo Comunitario Nonohualca.
https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/tlalmanalco.html

"A Franciscan convento at Tlalmanalco was finished by 1532-1533."
Joseph Armstrong Baird, The Churches of Mexico, 1530-1810 (1962), 120.

The convento of San Luis Obispo at Tlalmanalco had an open chapel.
Samuel Y. Edgerton, Theaters of Conversion (2001), xvi.

"The Chalcayotl is in four parts [literally, "places"] : Tlalmanalco, Amaquemecan, Tenanco, and Chimalhuacan."
Susan Schroeder, Chimalpahin and the Kingdom of Chalco (1991), 112.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

"En lo que se refiere a las declaraciones indígenas contra Tejada, veremos la percepción de este conflicto en dos cabeceras de Chalco, Tlalmanalco y Tenango (Tenango Tepopula), afectadas por el despojo de sus tierras a manos del oidor...."
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Gobierno y sociedad en Nueva España (1991), 233.

"Referente al año 1530, y hasta el 1532, podemos afirmar que Sahagún se encontraría en el convento de Tlalmanalco."
Florencio Vicente Castro y ‎José-Luis Rodríguez Molinero, Bernardino de Sahagún, primer antropólogo en Nueva España (1986), 91.

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Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods