San Pablo Atlazalpan
San Pablo Atlazalpan () is a town of 11,236 inhabitantsPopulation and Household Census 2010, INEGI located within the municipality of Chalco, State of Mexico, Mexico. History The main church of San Pablo Atlazalpan, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, dates from the 18th century. The interior was restored in 1982. The façade of the "Reform" pantheon was built in August 1906. Also in the town is located the former ''hacienda'' of Axalco, whose date of construction is not known. Religious discord In 1979, a priest called Adolfo Zamora arrived in San Pablo Atlazalpan. He banned women from entering the St Pater & St Paul main church if they were wearing trousers, short skirts or with the head uncovered. Also, divorced women were not allowed to enter, and children of single women were refused baptism. The Mass began to be conducted in Latin, following traditional Lefebvrist and Tridentine rites. The priest's measures provoked religious strife among the townspeople. Two gro ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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