Tiumen
a town in Western Siberia; at the confluence of the Tjumenka with the Tura, a tributary of the Tobol; 138 miles S.W. of Tobolsk. It is regularly built (chiefly of wood), has 10 stone churches, a mosque, etc. There are manufactures of soap, tallow candles, and textile fabrics, bell and iron foundries, potteries , and shoemaking. Tiumen is also a great center of transit traffic-boats coming here from the Obi, Irtish, Tobol, and Tura, and unshipping goods for the W. and S. A great market is held here in January. Pop. about 35,000. ang TOAD nel was formed for a part of the waters of the river, by the construction of two shafts through the limestone rock of Monte Catillo, 870 feet and 990 feet long respectively. In 1834 this new channel was opened by Folchi in the presence of Pope Gregory XVI., and a new waterfall was thus formed 330 feet high. Pop. about 15,000.
TLAXCALA (tläs-kä'lä), the smallest State of Mexico; on the plateau of Anahuac; nearly surrounded by Puebla, and touching Mexico State on the W.; area 1,534 square miles. Pop. 1919, 192,000 .
In Aztec days Tlaxcala was the seat of an independent republic, which survived for a time under the protection of the Spaniards. The capital, Tlaxcala, stands 7,300 feet above the sea, and has some manufactures of woolens .