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| Keywords: Battle Spanish Otomies Metztitlan.jpg PD-old-100 This picture is not a picture of the siege of tenochtitlan but a depiction of the Spanish conquistadors with their tlaxcllan allies fighting against the Otomies of Metztitlan in present day Hialgo The picture comes from the lienzo de Tlaxcala Metztitlan means place of the moon in Náhuatl otomies venerated the moon and the name is written both in latin letters and with an aztec glyph showing the moon with a face on top of the hillside The Art Archive/Antochiw Collection Mexico/Mirelle Vautier Scanned from Davis Paul K 2003 Besieged 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo Oxford Oxford University Press original upload log wikitable date/time username resolution size edit summary ---- 15 30 15 May 2005 User LordAmeth 735×582 158 KB <nowiki> PD-old-100 Sixteenth century depiction of the battle for Tenochtitlan between the Aztecs and Hernan Cortes The Art Archive/Antochiw Collection Mexico/Mirelle Vautier Scanned from Davis Paul K 2003 Besieged 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sara</nowiki> Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire Metztitlán History of Hidalgo Cavalry in Latin America history Lienzo de Tlaxcala Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
