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TLAXCALA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1034 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TLAXCALA , a See also:

town of See also:Mexico, See also:capital of a See also:state of the same name, on the Atoyac See also:river, 58 m. E. of Mexico See also:city by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 2715. It is of historic See also:interest in connexion with the See also:conquest of Mexico by See also:Cortes. The state-See also:house is its only See also:fine edifice of a See also:political See also:character, and the old See also:bishop's See also:palace its finest See also:building of a religious character. Of most historic interest, perhaps, is the See also:church of See also:San Francisco, the first erected on the See also:American See also:continent, which still contains the See also:vestments, See also:pulpit, See also:font and See also:cedar See also:ceiling brought from See also:Spain in 1521. The handsome See also:sanctuary over the See also:holy well of Ocotlan, on a See also:hill outside the town, is one of the landmarks of the surrounding See also:country.

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