Conquista de Tabasco

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Tabasco
Tabasco
Tabasco (in Spanish). Mexico: INAFED Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco. 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2011.[permanent dead link‍] "Etapa de la Conquista"
Tabasco (former state)
Tabasco (former state)
Tabasco or Tavasco was a Chontal Maya Nation in the westernmost area of the Maya region. Sometime, probably during the 12th century the Chontal Maya in
Villa de Santa María de la Victoria
now calls the town of Potonchán or Tabasco..." — Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (1519): 68, 82  Later
Yucatán
Yucatán
comes from Bernal Díaz del Castillo. In his book Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (True History of the Conquest of New Spain), he says
Potonchán
Potonchán
or Tabasco. It occupied the left bank of the Tabasco River, which the Spanish renamed the Grijalva River, in the current Mexican state of Tabasco. Juan