Cuscatlan

Cuzcatlan or Cuscatlan (also Cōzcatlān or Koskatlan , in the Pipil language Nawat Kuskatan or Kushkatan , emphasis on the penultimate syllable), Hispanicized Cuzcatlán or Cuscatlán (emphasis on the last syllable) is a place name from the Nahuatl , which is made up of the word components cōzcatl (Nawat: kuskat or kushkat , "necklace", "jewels") and the locative ending -tlān (Nawat: -tan ) and is interpreted as "land of jewels" or "land of wealth".

The name stands for

• an indigenous name of El Salvador
• Señorío de Cuzcatlan (1200–1528), a state of the Pipil in what is now western El Salvador before the Conquista
• Cuzcatlan, the capital of this state, today Antiguo Cuscatlán in the department of La Libertad
• Department of Cuscatlán , a department in El Salvador

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.