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Alvarado Tezozomoctzin.

Headword: 
Alvarado Tezozomoctzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name that combines a Spanish surname (Alvarado) taken by an Indigenous noble and a Nahua name (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Teçoçomotzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

The lord don Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoctzin was an author consulted by Chimalpahin. (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 86–87.

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