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

The year 2021 marked the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlán, the site of modern-day Mexico City and the capital of the Aztec empire, at the hands of Hernán Cortés and his small army.

From BBC

As Cortés eyed the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, Marina participated in a kind of chain translation: She would translate Nahuatl into Mayan to a Spanish castaway who had also been a Maya slave and had learned the language.

From Los Angeles Times

Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.

From Los Angeles Times

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