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cuauhtlatollo.

Headword: 
cuauhtlatollo.
Principal English Translation: 

military government (see Sahagún, attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

vncan otzintic in ça quauhtlatolo. Auh nican vmpeoa, in ça quauhtlatolo in tlatilulco = Then began only a military government. And here started only military rule in Tlatilulco. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Book 9—The Merchants, trans. Charles E. Dubble and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Santa Fe, New Mexico; The School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 2.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance
War, Conflict