It is a word of Nahuatl origin. It means a dweller of Tula (Tollan-Xicocotitlan), who lives in Tula, in the State of Hidalgo in Mexico. It is the name of a pre-Columbian Mexican culture and an indigenous people of the Tula region in the State of Hidalgo in Mexico. Among them, the word meant "wise who dominates the arts", which is equivalent to "very cultured". Name of a state that was developed in central Mexico at the time of the Mesoamerican Post-Classical Period.