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Tollan
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Tōllān.
Tollan is a word in Nahuatl used in Spanish colonial documents. Traditionally, tollan was interpreted as a Nahuatl toponym for Tula, Hidalgo. More recent scholarship suggests some kind of broader meaning, such as 'a place of the reeds'. Instead of a toponym for a specific settlement, it is also used as a qualifier to denote a category of densely populated cities.