About 1300 AD tribes of Nahuatl-speaking Mexica swept into the Mexico City area, possibly coming from the Mexico-USA border. They claimed to be from a mythical place called Aztlan and called themselves Azteca, forming a triple alliance of city states—Tenochtitlan (downtown Mexico City), Texcoco, Tlacopan. Their language, Nahuatl, has at least 2 million speakers so Aztecs are very much part of the present.
C. T. Suddeth 
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