what is the origin of the Mexican state name "Puebla"? What is its origin?

Answer 1

Hey Sally,

Puebla is an obsolete Spanish word used to designate a place, population or town. An obsolete feminine for the word pueblo (town).
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The Spaniards used the word puebla when they founded the capital of that Mexican state. They named the city 'Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza' (heroic town of Zaragoza).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla%2C_Puebla

Etymologically speaking, puebla comes from the Latin word popŭlus: people.

Answer 2

Used to be called City of Angels, City of Tiles, Heroic City of Zaragoza. Today we know it as simply Puebla. It is in a broad, high valley about 60 miles southeast of Mexico City.

Established by the Spanish in 1531 on the main route between the port of Veracruz (the most important port in Mexico) and Mexico City, Puebla was the principal city of colonial Mexico. Puebla's appearance is the most European of all the colonial cities, because it was planned from the ground up by a Spanish city designer rather than being built within an existing Indian community.

By 1539, Puebla had a university and was on its way to becoming well-known throughout Mexico for milling, textiles, exquisitely decorated pottery and tiles, and for the architectural beauty of its buildings.

Although modern Puebla is highly industrialized, its historic downtown remains a Spanish-colonial treasure filled with elegant 17th and 18th century European architecture and art. When you add a temperate climate year-around, friendly and courteous residents (called poblanos) and delicious regional cuisine, Puebla becomes the ideal place to learn Spanish.

Answer 3

it has to be with the name Pueblo but they decided take the feminine word Puebla