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Tenochtitlan is the southern part of the main island. The northern part is Tlatelolco. Tenochtitlan covered an estimated 8 to 13.5 km 2 (3.1 to 5.2 sq mi), [6] situated on the western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. At the time of Spanish conquests, Mexico City comprised both Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco.
[Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico]. Description Map of Tenochtitlan and Gulf of Mexico, 1524.jpg The map of Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico included in Hernán Cortés' Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio, 1524
English: Map of Tenochtitlan, printed 1524 in Nuremberg, Germany. Colorized woodcut. Colorized woodcut. On the left, the Gulf of Mexico (South is at the top, part of Cuba left); on the right, Tenochtitlan with West at the top.
Mexico-Tenochtitlan kept the city-states under threat de facto just by military brute force. The Aztec Empire was an example of an empire that ruled by indirect means. It was ethnically very diverse like most European empires but was more a system of tributes than a single unitary form of government unlike them.
One of the elements that stands out in this letter is the attached map depicting the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlán. The map is believed to have been created in 1520, but it was enclosed only with the third letter. It was sent by the secretary of Cortés, Juan de Ribera. [1] The map shows the lakes and avenues passing through Tenochtitlán.
The symbol of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the central image on the Mexican flag since Mexican independence from Spain in 1821.. The history of Mexico City stretches back to its founding ca. 1325 C.E as the Mexica city-state of Tenochtitlan, which evolved into the senior partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico immediately prior to the Spanish conquest of 1519 ...
The Templo Mayor (English: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. The temple was called Huēyi Teōcalli [we:ˈi teoːˈkali] [1] in the Nahuatl language.
[6] Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325, but other researchers and anthropologists believe the year to be 1345. [6] The city was described by conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo as a grand, well-ordered metropolis. [15] A dissident group of Mexica separated from the main body and built another city on an island north of Tenochtitlan in 1337.