Mexica
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The Mexica 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 settl
Music and dance during a One Flower ceremony, from the Florentine Codex
Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Mexica, as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis
Nahuas
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The Nahuas are a Uto-Nahuan ethnic group and one of the Indigenous people of Mexico, with Nahua minorities also in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. They comprise the larges
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…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. Since 1810, the broader term Aztec is often used to describe the Mexica. When a distinction is made, Mexica are one (dominant) group…
Nahua girls wearing traditional clothing in Puebla
Nahua man of Morelos ploughing a bean field by mule
Ceramic sculpture of Nahua deity from Puebla
"Atlantean figures" from the Nahua culture of the Toltecs at Tula