Tenochtitlán

American  

[te-nawch-tee-tlahn] / tɛˌnɔtʃ tiˈtlɑn /

noun

1. the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.

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Tenochtitlán British  

/ tɛˌnɔːtʃtiːˈtlɑːn /

noun

1. an ancient city and capital of the Aztec empire on the present site of Mexico City; razed by Cortés in 1521

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Example Sentences

Yet a little more than two years later, he captured Tenochtitlán, the Aztecs’ capital, and toppled their empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

The then-president dispatched his wife — an academic of German ancestry — to Vienna on what he acknowledged was a “mission impossible”: to persuade Austria’s leaders to lend the headdress to Mexico for a one-year exhibition in 2021 marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlán.

From Los Angeles Times

The thought might cross your mind — I’m guilty of it, sure — but it can be chased off by imagining how it felt to witness the Dust Bowl or the French Revolution or the fall of Tenochtitlan.

From Los Angeles Times

The Indigenous founders of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, built their capital on an island amid a series of lakes, a strategic setting that provided both security and access to water.

From Los Angeles Times

That sighting led to the founding of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, later Mexico City.

From New York Times