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The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. After the 1521 conquest of Tenochtitlan by Spanish forces and their allies which brought about the effective end of Aztec dominion, the Spanish founded the new settlement of Mexico City on the site of the ruined Aztec capital. The capital of the modern-day nation of Mexico, the greater metropolitan area of Mexico City now covers much of the Valley of Mexico and the now-drained Lake of Texcoco.
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From the 13th century the Valley of Mexico was the nucleus of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. The Triple Alliance formed its tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica.
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The Aztecs formed an extensive state (often referred to as the Aztec Empire) in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, based in the central Mexican highlands during the late Postclassic period in Mesoamerican chronology. Since its popularization in historical literature from the 19th century onwards, the term Aztec has been used to refer to several different (but related) groupings of Nahuatl-speaking peoples, and its usage varies somewhat with the context. Often, it refers exclusively to the people who traditionally founded their capital Tenochtitlan, who were self-described as the Mexica, Culhua-Mexica or Tenochca. Sometimes it ... includes Tenochtitlan's two principal city-state allies, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with Tenochtitlan formed the Aztec Triple Alliance that gave rise to the extensive empire in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.[1] In other contexts it may refer to all the various Nahua peoples and altepetls that became participants and tributaries to the dominating state.
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