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Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

by | Dec 5, 2025

Description: The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City’s Nahuatl...