Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

Mexicatlalli.

Headword: 
Mexicatlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

“Mexica land,” a civil category of unclear status
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

IPAspelling: 
meːʃihkɑtɬɑːlli
Attestations from sources in English: 

mexicatlalli = Mexica land
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 225.

themes: 
Imperialism (Indigenous)
Land Tenure