Anáhuac

[ uh-nah-wahk; Spanish ah-nah-wahk ]

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noun

the central plateau of Mexico, between the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental ranges (3,700 to 9,000 feet; 1,128 to 2,743 meters): center of former Aztec civilization.

First recorded in 1810–15; from Nahuatl: literally, “close to the water,” equivalent to A(tl) “water” + nahuac, a suffix meaning “close to”

The Commandant of Anahuac arrested and put in prison several American colonists, without any plausible grounds.

In ancient Anahuac the prelacy was as systematic and its rules as well defined, as in the Church of Rome.

This Empire of Anahuac, as it was sometimes called, had endured for two centuries.

The Eutaws 'reside on both sides of the Eutaw or Anahuac mountains, they are continually migrating from one side to the other.'

It is that of the giants, or Quinames, the earliest inhabitants of Anahuac, whose end was destruction by famine.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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