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Yosoyuxi

Yosoyuxi proper noun: a village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Proper noun

Yosoyuxi

  1. A village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
    • In 1934 he attacked the village council composed of former Carrancistas from the barrio of Yosoyuxi.2009, Benjamin T. Smith, Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, page 171
    • On May 20, 2010, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, a founder and leader of MULTI and of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, was gunned down in his home in Yosoyuxi, as was his wife, Tleriberta Castro.2013, Lynn Stephen, We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, Duke University Press, page 231

Origin of Yosoyuxi

Borrowed from Spanish Yosoyuxi, from a Mixtec language.

Questions about Yosoyuxi

What does Yosoyuxi mean?
Yosoyuxi means a village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
What part of speech is Yosoyuxi?
Yosoyuxi is a proper noun.

Words near Yosoyuxi in the dictionary

  1. Yoshke
  2. yoshoku
  3. yosi boy
  4. yosi boys
  5. Yosondúa
  6. Yosoyuxi
  7. Yost
  8. Yosu
  9. yosuzume
  10. yot
  11. yotated

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