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Tenochtitlan

The Mexica capital, built on an island in Lake Texcoco and connected to the shore by causeways, with a population that contemporary estimates and modern reconstructions put among the…

19.4, -99.1 · approximate · founded traditionally 1325; fell 13 August 1521

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