. "The Mexica (Nahuatl: M\u0113xihcah, [me\u02D0\u02C8\u0283i\u0294ka\u0294]; the singular is M\u0113xihcatl [me\u02D0\u02C8\u0283i\u0294kat\u0361\u026C]) or Mexicas \u2014 were an indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire.The Mexica were a Nahua people who founded their two cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco on raised islets in Lake Texcoco around AD 1200."@en . "Mexica"@en . . .