[Aztlan] Tenochtitlan or Mexico-Tenochtitlan??

[Jorge Pérez de Lara]

Prof. John Schwaller is probably the authority here.

For what it may (or not) be worth, I would think the composite name 
Mexico-Tenochtitlan would have been used as a double reference: the 
first part defining it as the homeland of the mexica, while the second 
was the actual name of the city, the traditional translation of which is 
given as "Place of the Cactus Fruit ("tuna" in Spanish)." So perhaps the 
name "Mexico-Tenochtitlan" could be glossed something like "Tenochtitlan 
of the Mexica"?

(My two cacao seeds.)

Jorge