Azcapotzalco (altepetl)

Azcapotzalco (altepetl)

Infobox Former Country
conventional_long_name = Azcapotzalco
common_name = Azcapotzalco
continent = North America
region = Mesoamerica
country = Mexico
government_type = Monarchy
capital = Azcapotzalco
common_languages = Nahuatl
religion =


symbol_type = Glyph
s1 = Viceroyalty of New Spain
flag_s1 = Flag of New Spain.svg

Azcapotzalco was a pre-Columbian Nahua "altepetl" (state) in the Valley of Mexico, on the western shore of Lake Texcoco.

The name "Azcapotzalco" means "at the anthill" in Nahuatl. Its inhabitants were called "Azcapotzalca".

According to the 17th century annalist Chimalpahin, Azcapotzalco was founded by Chichimecs in the year 995 AD. [Chimalpahin (1997): vol.2, p. 65.] The most famous ruler ("tlatoani") of Azcapotzalco was Tezozomoctli.

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*cite book |author=Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón |year=1997 |title=Codex Chimalpahin |others=ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder |location=Norman and London |publisher=Oklahoma University Press


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