Tenochtitlan (mex)

Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan ranks 1,161st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kaiserslautern, Austria, and Caen. Memorable people born in Tenochtitlan include Moctezuma II, Cuauhtémoc, and Moctezuma I. Memorable people who died in Tenochtitlan include Moctezuma II, Moctezuma I, and Cuitláhuac. Tenochtitlan has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians. Tenochtitlan is located in Mexico.

Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The city was the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Tlaxcaltec and the Spanish in 1521. Read more on Wikipedia