Huitzilopochco | |||||||
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| 15th Century–1520s | |||||||
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| Common languages | Nahuatl | ||||||
| Religion | Pre-Columbian Nahua religion | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
| Historical era | Pre-Columbian | ||||||
• Established | 15th Century | ||||||
• Incorporated into New Spain | 1520s | ||||||
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Huitzilopochco (sometimes called Churubusco, and other variants) was a small pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) in the Valley of Mexico.[1][2] Huitzilopochco was called one of the Nauhtecuhtli ("Four Lords"), alongside Culhuacan, Itztapalapan and Mexicatzinco.[3] The name Huitzilopochco means "place of Huitzilopochtli (a god)" in Nahuatl. The inhabitants of Huitzilopochco were known as Huitzilopochca.
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- ^ Horn, Rebecca (1997). Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2773-0.
- ^ Gibson, Charles (1964). The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0196-9.