Confederation · approximate1348 – 1520 · 172 years

Tlaxcala

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

Tlaxcala, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala, is one of the 32 federal entities that comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipalities and the capital city and the largest city is Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl.

Wikipedia: Tlaxcala·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Confederation

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT1500
POLITY TYPEconfederation

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Spanish Conquest of Mexico1519–21
World-changing · 3.6M dead
Aztec-Tlaxcalan Wars1456–1521
Major conflict · 150K dead
Battle of Tlaxcala1519
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1348 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Tlaxcala (1348 – 1520). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-tlaxcala · Sources & methodology