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Tepanec conquest of Texcoco
The Tepanec conquest of Texcoco (conquista tepaneca de Texcoco) was the 1418 defeat of Texcoco by Azcapotzalco, in which Ixtlilxochitl I was killed and Nezahualcoyotl exiled.
Tepanec expansion under Tezozomoc
The Tepanec expansion under Tezozomoc was the growth of an empire from Azcapotzalco that dominated the Valley of Mexico under King Tezozomoc, who ruled 1371 to 1426.
Tepanec War
The Tepanec War (Guerra Tepaneca) was the 1428 rebellion in the Basin of Mexico in which Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan defeated the Tepanec capital of Azcapotzalco.
Tepapayeca
Tepapayeca, an INAH archaeological zone in Tlapanalá, Puebla, Mexico; Late Postclassic (1200–1521) Mexica garrison site subdued by the Triple Alliance, with a five-building ceremonial center and a 17th-century chapel atop the main pyramid.
Tepe Farukhabad
Tepe Farukhabad is a settlement mound on the Deh Luran Plain of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, which became the plain's largest settlement in the Late Uruk period around 3300–3100 BCE.
Tepe Gawra
Tepe Gawra is an ancient settlement mound near Nineveh in northern Iraq, excavated from 1931 to 1938, whose long stratified sequence anchors the chronology of northern Mesopotamia.
Tepe Ghabristan
Tepe Ghabristan, also printed Tepe Ghabrestan, is a Chalcolithic settlement tell in the Qazvin plain of northwestern Iran, occupied from about 4400 BC and known for an early copper workshop.
Tepe Giyan
Tepe Giyan (Giān Tappa) is a prehistoric archaeological mound near Nahavand in western Iran, occupied from the mid-5th millennium BC, known for its stratified cemetery of more than 120 graves and its painted pottery.
Tepe Hissar
Tepe Hissar, also known as Tappeh Hessar, is a prehistoric mound near Damghan in northeastern Iran, occupied from after 5000 BCE to about 1900 BCE.
Tepe Horreeye
Tepe Horreeye, also written Tappeh Horreyeh, is an archaeological site in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, known for an Elamite cuneiform inscription published by François Vallat in 1990.
Tepe Musiyan
Tepe Musiyan, site DL-20, is the largest archaeological mound on the Deh Luran plain in western Iran, occupied from the 8th millennium BC into the 2nd millennium BC.
Tepe Nush-i Jan
Tepe Nush-i Jan (نوشیجان) is a Median archaeological mound near Malayer, Iran, excavated by David Stronach from 1967 to 1977, with a fire temple and columned hall.
Tepe Ozbaki
Tepe Ozbaki (محوطه باستانی ازبکی) is a multi-period archaeological site near Hashtgerd, west of Tehran, occupied from the 7th millennium BC to the Median period.
Tepe Sagzabad
Tepe Sagzabad (Tappeh Sagzabad) is an archaeological mound in the Qazvin plain of north-central Iran, occupied continuously from the Bronze Age into the Achaemenid period.
Tepe Sialk
Tepe Sialk, also known as Tappeh Sialk, is an archaeological site of two mounds and two cemeteries near Kashan, Iran, occupied from the 6th millennium BCE to 550 BCE.
Tepe Sofalin
Tepe Sofalin is an archaeological settlement mound in the Rey plain about 35 km southeast of Tehran, Iran, known for Proto-Elamite clay tablets of about 3500–2900 BCE.
Tepe Yahya
Tepe Yahya (Tappe Yaḥyā) is an archaeological mound in the Soḡun valley of Kerman province, southeastern Iran, known for Proto-Elamite tablets, carved chlorite vessels, and Bronze Age trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus.
Tepeaca
Tepeaca is a city and municipality in Puebla, Mexico, known for its ancient market and founded by Hernán Cortés as Villa de Segura de la Frontera in 1520.
Tepeapulco
Tepeapulco is a town and municipality in Hidalgo, Mexico, whose name in Nahuatl means "next to the great hill"; it is known for the Xihuingo archaeological zone and for Bernardino de Sahagún's 16th-century fieldwork there.
Tepehuán revolt
The Tepehuán revolt (Levantamiento tepehuán de 1616) was a Tepehuán uprising against Spanish rule in Nueva Vizcaya, now northern Mexico, that lasted roughly two years from 1616.
Tepetlaoztoc
Tepetlaoztoc, spelled Tepetlaoxtoc in modern usage, was a Nahua altepetl, or city-state, east of Lake Tetzcoco in the Acolhua region, best known for its sixteenth-century pictorial manuscripts, including the Codex Kingsborough and detailed census records.
Tepev Mons
Tepev Mons is a ~300 km wide, ~6 km tall shield volcano in Bell Regio, Venus, with two summit calderas, steep flanks, and sagging deformation structures.
Tepexi El Viejo
Tepexi El Viejo (Tepexi el Viejo) is a fortified Postclassic Popoloca archaeological site 8 km west of Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, Mexico: a walled hilltop fortress in deep ravines, head of a major Popoloca señorío, with Gorenstein's Huichi, Xaqua, and Toyna phases.
TEPfactor
TEPfactor (Together Enjoy Play) is a Czech-origin chain of indoor adventure parks inspired by Fort Boyard, where teams of 2-6 complete 25 strength, logic, skill, and patience challenges in an artificial cave, paying per minute; locations include Slapy, Prague, Warsaw Blue City, and Dubai JBR.
Tephra
Tephra, also called volcanic fallout, is the collective term for fragmental volcanic material ejected into the atmosphere during explosive eruptions, classified by size as ash, lapilli, or blocks and bombs.
Tephritidae
Tephritidae, the true fruit flies (also called Trypetidae), is a family of Diptera with roughly 4,300–4,900 species in about 500 genera; about 250 species are major horticultural pests, notably Bactrocera, Ceratitis, and Anastrepha.
Tephrochronology
Tephrochronology is a dating and correlation method that uses volcanic ash layers as isochronous marker beds, linking sediment cores, ice cores, and archaeological sequences on a common timescale.
Tephrosia
Tephrosia (hoarypea) is a conserved genus of about 350-400 pantropical legumes in Fabaceae, tribe Millettieae, richest in Africa-Madagascar; many species produce rotenone and are used as fish poisons, green manure, and medicine.
Tephrostratigraphy
Tephrostratigraphy is the study of sequences of tephra layers and cryptotephras, volcanic deposits used to correlate sediment sequences across regions and, with dated layers, to transfer ages between sites.
Tepic
Tepic, capital of Nayarit, Mexico; formerly the name of the whole territory before 1917 statehood. Municipality of 425,924 (2020), 86.72% of the Tepic-Xalisco metro zone; agricultural export hub.