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ID: 7007137
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007137
Record Type:
administrative
Cholula (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 04 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 19.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 098 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -98.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Ancient site, dating to at least 200 BCE, possibly as early as 1000 BCE; noted for the truncated Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, the base of which covers 42 acres; was used by Aztecs for sacrifices.
Names:
Cholula
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Cholula de Rivadabia
(
C
,
V
)
Cholula de Riva Dabia
(
C
,
V
)
Cholōllān
(
C
,
V
,
Nahuatl
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Puebla
(state) (
P
)
................
Cholula
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
............
ancient Aztec site
religious center (
H
)
Aztec (
H
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Puebla de Zaragoza
.......... (inhabited place)
..............................
(World, North and Central America, Mexico, Puebla state) [7007118]
Sources and Contributors:
Cholōllān..........
[
VP
]
....................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Cholula..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................
New World, Archaeology (1995)
C
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
Cholula de Rivadabia..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
263
Cholula de Riva Dabia..........
[
VP
]
......................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
FAMSI [online] (2008-)
accessed 17 April 2009
..................
New World, Archaeology (1995)
C
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1657531
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
263
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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