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Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Indigenous people. [d] The city was originally built on a group of islands in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica around 1325, under the name Tenochtitlan.
The history of Mexico City stretches back to its founding ca. 1325 CE as the Mexica city-state of Tenochtitlan, which evolved into the senior partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico immediately prior to the Spanish conquest of 1519–1521.
29 Οκτ 2024 · Mexico City, city and capital of Mexico, synonymous with the Federal District, although the term can also apply to the city’s metropolitan area to the west, north, and east. It was built atop the razed island-capital of Tenochtitlan, the cultural and political center of the Aztec (Mexica) empire.
29 Οκτ 2024 · During the rule of Pres. Porfirio Díaz (1876–80; 1884–1911), Mexico City was modernized in the manner of Paris under the administrator Georges Eugène, Baron Haussmann. By the end of the 19th century, streetcars pulled by mules linked the centre of the city with villages like Mixcoac.
The most populous metropolitan area in Mexico is the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico, or Greater Mexico City, which in 2020 had a population of 21.8 million, or around 18% of the nation's population.
Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Indigenous people. [lower-alpha 4] The city was originally built on a group of islands in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica around 1325, under the name Tenochtitlan.
4 ημέρες πριν · Mexico City - Tenochtitlan, Emergence, Aztec: Less than eight months after entering Tenochtitlán as conquerors, Cortés and his men were routed from the city on what the Europeans came to call La Noche Triste (“The Sad Night”; June 30, 1520); they determined to retake it the following year.
