Tula de Allende
Tula de Allende is the modern name of the city formerly known as Tollan or Tolan or Tolán, the capital of the one-time Toltec Empire, located at the junction of the Rosas and Tula Rivers.1 Today the city has only about 28 thousand residents2 and does not occupy all of the original site. The old city was destroyed in the 12th century. Ruins include pyramids, ball courts and chacmool statues (reclining figures, face forward, tray on lap).
| Year | Population3 | Political entity |
| 800 CE | 4| Toltec Empire | |
| 900 CE | 50,000 | Toltec Empire |
| 1000 CE | 5| Toltec Empire | |
External references
Ruins, including a pyramid, in Tula de Allende
Historical maps
Footnotes
1. The city and state's real name are speculative, given the culture's pre-literacy. Tollan is the later name in Nahuatl and this name was applied to several other cities.
2. world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/10/2011.
3. Estimate for pre-20th century population in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). From 800 through 1000 CE it was the largest city in this part of what is now México (México State, Morelos, Federal District, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Colima, Michoacán and Guanajuato).
4. It was smaller than Nishapur, which had less than 45 thousand residents, but larger than Qus, which had 40 thousand.
5. It was smaller than Shiraz, which had 52 thousand residents, but larger than Loyang, which had 50 thousand.
