Otumba
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Otumba may refer to:
- Otumba, Mexico StateOtumba, Mexico StateOtumba is a municipio of Mexico State in Mexico. The municipal seat and largest settlement is Otumba de Gómez Farías...
, a municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico - Otumba de Gómez FaríasOtumba de Gómez FaríasOtumba or Otumba de Gómez Farías is a town and municipality located in the northeast of the State of Mexico, just northeast of Mexico City. Historically, this area is best known as the site of the Battle of Otumba and as an important crossroads during the colonial period where incoming viceroys...
, a town and the municipal seat of Otumba municipality, State of Mexico - OtompanOtompanOtompan or Otumba was a pre-Columbian altepetl or city-state in the upper Teotihuacan Valley...
, a pre-Columbian altepetl - Battle of OtumbaBattle of Otumba- Background :Around the end of March 1519, Hernán Cortés landed with a Spanish conquistador force at Potonchán on the coast of modern-day Mexico. Cortés had been commissioned by Governor Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar of Spanish-controlled Cuba to lead an expedition in the area, which was dominated by...
, a 1521 battle in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire