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Aztlán
Legendary ancestral home of the Aztec / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Astatlan or westernized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ⓘ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlán", from which was derived the word Aztec. Aztlán is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and while they each cite varying lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from Aztlán to central Mexico, the Mexica who later founded Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts.
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Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlán and tend to place it either in northwestern Mexico or the Southwestern United States,[1] although whether Aztlán represents a real location or is purely mythological is a matter of debate.