Aztalan State Park
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Aztalan State Park is a state park in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. Established in 1952, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Hist
Steps on the eastern face of the largest platform mound, Aztalan State Park
Largest platform mound viewed from the south and part of a stockade
Replica of a house built over 1000 years ago at Aztalan from an exhibit in the Wisconsin Historical Museum
Interior of Aztalan house in museum exhibit
Aztlán
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Aztlán is the mythical home of the Aztec peoples. The word "Aztec" was derived from the Classical Nahuatl aztecah, meaning "people from Aztlán." Aztlán is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources
Aztalan State Park
…to Humboldt, the Aztecs, or ancient inhabitants of Mexico, had a tradition that their ancestors came from a country at the north, which they called Aztalan; and the possibility that these may have been remains of their occupancy, suggested the idea of restoring the name. It is made up of two Mexican words…
Depiction of the departure from Aztlán from an island in the 16th-century Codex Boturini. Aztlán is also depicted as some island in the Aubin and Azcatitlan codices.
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