See also:

• AZTECS (from the Nahuatl word aztlan, " place of the Heron," or " Heron " people)

AZTECS (from the Nahuatl word aztlan, " See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the See also:

• HERON (Fr. heron; Ital. aghirone, airone; Lat. ardea; Gr. ipw&bs: A.-S. hragra; Icelandic, hegre; Swed. hager; Dan. heire; Ger. Heiger, Reiher, Heergans; Dutch, reiger)

Heron," or " Heron " See also:

• PEOPLE

people)  , the native name of one of the tribes that occupied the tableland of See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico on the arrival of the Spaniards in See also:

• AMERICA

America . It has been very frequently employed as See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the collective See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Nahuatlecas or Mexicans . The See also:

• AZTECS (from the Nahuatl word aztlan, " place of the Heron," or " Heron " people)

Aztecs came, according to native tradition, from a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country to which they gave the name of Aztlan, usually supposed to See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie towards the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west, but the satisfactory localization of it is one of the greatest difficulties in Mexican See also:

• HISTORY

history . The date of the See also:

• EXODUS, BOOK OF
• EXODUS, THE

exodus from Aztlan is equally undetermined, being fixed by various authorities in the 11th and by others in the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . One Mexican See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript gives a date equivalent to A.D . 1164 . They gradually increased their See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence among other tribes, until, by See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union with the See also:

• TOLTECS (Mexican Tolteca)

Toltecs, who occupied the tableland before them, they extended their See also:

• EMPIRE

empire to an See also:

• AREA

area of from i8,000 to 20,00C square leagues . The researches of See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt gave the first clear insight into the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early periods of their history . See MEXICO; NAHUATLAN STOCK .