Mexica
Appearance
Music and dance during a One Flower ceremony, from the Florentine Codex | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Languages | |
| Classical Nahuatl | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Nahua peoples |
The Aztecs called themselves the Mexica. The term "Aztec" comes from the Nahuatl word Aztecah, meaning "people from Aztlan", the legendary ancestral homeland from which the Mexica are said to have migrated.