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Tenochco.

Headword: 
Tenochco.
Principal English Translation: 

"Place of the Cactus Fruit on the Stone," an early (the second one) name for Tenochtitlan (which was the third name for the Aztec capital)
Cecilio Agustín Robelo, Nombres geográficos indigenas del estado de México (1900), 170. Also, Sahagún refers to "Tenochco and Tlatelolco," according to Max Harris in, Aztecs, Moors, and Christians (2010), 110.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Vetancurt mencions "Purificación de Tenochco" as a parcialidad of Tetzcoco.
Cited by Pedro Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico (2012), 134.

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