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Tlaxcala Territory ( es, Territorio de Tlaxcala) was a territory of Mexico, from 1824 to 1857.https://archivos.juridicas.unam.mx/www/bjv/libros/1/8/32.pdf The capital was
Tlaxcala City Tlaxcala, officially Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala and seat of the municipality of the same name. The city did not exist during the pre-Hispanic period but was laid out by the Spanish as a center ...
. The territory was located in East-Central
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, in the Altiplano region, with the eastern portion dominated by the Sierra Madre Oriental. The territory was created on 24 November 1824, with its territory carved from the State of Puebla. Under the Centralist Regime, the territory was a part of the Department of Mexico between 1836 and 1846. On 3 October 1857, the territory became the State of
Tlaxcala Tlaxcala (; , ; from nah, Tlaxcallān ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipaliti ...
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History of Tlaxcala ''History of Tlaxcala'' (Spanish: ''Historia de Tlaxcala'') is an alphabetic text in Spanish with illustrations written by and under the supervision of Diego Muñoz Camargo in the years leading up to 1585. Muñoz Camargo's work is divided into t ...
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Territories of Mexico The Territories of Mexico are part of the history of 19th and 20th century independent Mexico. The country created territories (''territorios'') for areas too lightly populated to be states, or for political reasons. The 1824 Constitution of ...
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1824 Constitution of Mexico The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 ( es, Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824) was enacted on October 4 of 1824, after the overthrow of the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide. In the new Fr ...


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Territories of Mexico History of Puebla History of Tlaxcala 1824 establishments in Mexico 1856 disestablishments in Mexico {{Tlaxcala-geo-stub