Mexica
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The Mexica (Nahuatl: ; singular ) are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire. The Mexica established Tenochtitlan, a settlement on an island in Lake Texcoco, in 1325. A dissident group in Tenochtitlan separated and founded the settlement of Tlatelolco with its own dynastic lineage. In 1521, their empire was overthrown by an alliance of Spanish conquistadors and rival indigenous nations, most prominently the Tlaxcaltecs.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Mexica
- Ethnic group.image
- 300px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Music and dance during a One Flower ceremony, from the Florentine Codex
- Ethnic group.total
- Aztec: 5–6 million people
- Ethnic group.total_year
- 1519
- Ethnic group.regions
- Valley of Mexico
- Ethnic group.languages
- Nahuatl, Spanish
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Mexica (plural) Mexicatl (singular)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Catholicism blended with traditional Mexica religion
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Other Nahua peoples
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The Mexica (Nahuatl: ; singular ) are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire. The Mexica established Tenochtitlan, a settlement on an island in Lake Texcoco, in 1325. A dissident group in Tenochtitlan separated and founded the settlement of Tlatelolco with its own dynastic lineage. In 1521, their empire was overthrown by an alliance of Spanish conquistadors and rival indigenous nations, most prominently the Tlaxcaltecs.
Today, descendants of the Mexica and other Aztec peoples are among the Nahua people of Mexico.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mexica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.