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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A town of central Mexico north of Mexico City. Impressive Toltec ruins have been discovered on the site.
  • A city of western Russia south of Moscow. First mentioned in 1146, it was an important fortress in the 1500s and became an armament-manufacturing center in 1712.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as istle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A city in Tula Oblast, Russia, 165km south of Moscow.
  • proper noun A western Russian oblast, the capital of which is the city of Tula.
  • proper noun A town in Hidalgo, Mexico, near the remains of the Toltec city Tollan.

Etymologies

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From Spanish Tula, from Nahuatl Tōllān "place of bulrushes", from tōllin "bulrush" + -tlān.

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