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Mexica

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Mexica
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.