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Tenochtzin.

Headword: 
Tenochtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

the tenth ruler of the Mexica (counting from when they were in Aztlan), and the one who led them until they arrived in Tenochtitlan

Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 144–5.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance