Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco is a district of Mexico City , in the center of which is the Plaza de las Tres Culturas with the Colegio de la Santa Cruz . He belongs to the Delegación Cuauhtémoc in the heart of the Mexican capital.
history
Tlatelolco was originally an independent city-state in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica , which was located on an island in Lake Texcoco . In 1473, however , it was conquered by Axayacatl , the ruler of neighboring Tenochtitlán , and captured by the Aztec metropolis , which became a twin city.
Over time, Tlatelolco developed into the largest and most important market in Tenochtitlán and thus formed the counterpart to its religious center, which was primarily dominated by the Templo Mayor .
The market, in which a wide variety of goods from all parts of the Aztec Empire were traded, was probably the most important market in all of pre-Columbian America: According to Bernal Díaz del Castillos and Hernán Cortés , it was said to have been larger than anyone with its estimated 20,000 to 40,000 dealers different market that the Spanish conquistadors had seen before, and also larger than contemporary Seville .
When Tenochtitlán was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors on August 13, 1521, Tlatelolco was the last bastion to which the Aztecs retreated under their leader Cuauhtemoc and were finally defeated. More than 40,000 men, women and children are said to have lost their lives here.
Attractions
The ruins of the pre-Hispanic city center are accessible after excavations and restorations in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas . The colonial monastery ( Colegio de la Santa Cruz ) with the church of Santiago de Tlatelolco is also worth a visit.
Important events
On February 14, 1967, the Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed here, with which the states of Latin America and the Caribbean declared their territories a nuclear-weapon-free zone.
On October 2, 1968, the Plaza de las Tres Culturas was the scene of the Tlatelolco massacre , in which the army and police killed more than 300 students who had taken part in a protest rally shortly before the start of the Olympic Games .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kriza, Elisa: Social and gender relations in the Mexican 68s literature . In: Ute Franz (Ed.): Women in Research 2018: Contributions from young Bamberg scientists . tape 10 . University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86309-639-7 , pp. 173-190 , doi : 10.20378 / irbo-53943 .
Coordinates: 19 ° 27 ′ 11 ″ N , 99 ° 8 ′ 25 ″ W.