Montezuma

Montezuma, Moctezuma, Moteczoma, Motecuhzoma, Moteuczomah, and Mwatazuma are variant spellings of the same word and may refer to:

People

• Moctezuma I (1398–1469), fifth Aztec emperor
• Moctezuma II (c. 1460–1520), ninth Aztec emperor, killed during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, after he was captured by Conquistador Hernán Cortés
  • Pedro Moctezuma, son of Montezuma II
  • Isabel Moctezuma (1509/1510 – 1550/1551), daughter of Montezuma II
    • Leonor Cortés Moctezuma (born c. 1528), illegitimate daughter of Hernán Cortés and Isabel Montezuma
      • Isabel de Tolosa Cortés de Moctezuma (1568–17th-century), Mexican heiress, wife of conqueror and explorer Don Juan de Onate, granddaughter of Hernán Cortés and great-granddaughter of Montezuma II
• Carlos Montezuma (c. 1860–1923), Yavapai/Apache activist and a founding member of the Society of American Indians
• Carlos López Moctezuma (1909–1980), Mexican film actor
• Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born 1940), Mexican archaeologist
• Esteban Moctezuma (born 1954), Mexican politician
• Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma (born 1927), Mexican lawyer, Secretary of Finance under President Portillo, and director general of Pemex and the Somex bank
• Leonidas de Montezuma (1869–1937), English cricketer
• Moctesuma Esparza (born 1949), American film director
• Moctezuma Serrato (born 1976), Mexican retired footballer
• Montezuma Fuller (1858–1926), American architect

Places

Mexico

• Moctezuma, Sonora, a municipality
• Moctezuma, San Luis Potosí, a municipality
• Moctezuma River
• Moctezuma River (Sonora)
• Metro Moctezuma, a station on the Mexico City Metro

United States

• Montezuma, California, a ghost town
• Montezuma Hills, California
• Montezuma, Colorado, a Statutory Town
• Montezuma County, Colorado
• Montezuma, Georgia, a city
• Montezuma Township, Pike County, Illinois
• Montezuma, Indiana, a town
• Montezuma, Iowa, a city
• Montezuma Township, Gray County, Kansas
  • Montezuma, Kansas, a city
• Montezuma, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
• Montezuma, New York, a town
• Montezuma, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Montezuma, Ohio, a village
• Montezuma, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona
• Montezuma Creek, Utah, a settlement in Utah
• Montezuma Creek (San Juan River), a creek in Utah
• Montezuma Marsh, Cayuga Lake, New York
• Montezuma National Forest, Colorado
• Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, New York
• Montezuma Range, Nevada, a mountain range
• Montezuma Well, a natural limestone sinkhole near Rimrock, Arizona

Other

• Montezuma Falls, Tasmania, Australia
• Montezuma, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a municipality
• Montezuma, Costa Rica, a town

Music

• Montezuma, hero of a 1695 semi-opera by Henry Purcell known by the title The Indian Queen
• Motezuma, a 1733 opera by Antonio Vivaldi (until recently known under the title Montezuma)
• Montezuma, a 1755 opera by Carl Heinrich Graun
• Motezuma, a 1765 opera by Gian Francesco de Majo
• Motezuma, a 1771 opera by Josef Mysliveček
• Montezuma, a 1775 opera by Antonio Sacchini
• Montezuma, a 1780 opera by Giacomo Insanguine
• Montesuma, a 1781 opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
• Montezuma, by Ignaz von Seyfried (1804)
• Montezuma, an opera by Giacomo Treves (1845)
• Montezuma, a 1884 opera by Frederick Grant Gleason
• Montezuma, a 1963 opera by Roger Sessions
• Montezuma, a 1980 film score, music by Hans Werner Henze
• La Conquista, a 2005 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero (also known as Montezuma)
• Montezuma Fallender Adler, musical theatre by Bernhard Lang (2009)

Ships

• Moctezuma (ship), a primarily Chilean sloop
• USS Montezuma, three ships of the United States Navy
• SS Montezuma, a British ship, launched 1899, also known as RFA Abadol and RFA Oakleaf

Other uses

• Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, Spanish hereditary title held by descendants of Moctezuma II
• Moctezuma de Orizaba, defunct Mexican soccer (football) team
• Montezuma, a 2009 BBC documentary
• Montezuma (mythology), in the mythology of certain Amerindian tribes of the Southwest United States
• Montezuma (Norwood, Virginia), a home on the National Register of Historic Places
• Montezuma Castle (hotel), Las Vegas, New Mexico
• Montezuma leopard frog, a species of frog in the Ranidae family endemic to Mexico
• Montezuma oropendola, a species of New World tropical icterid bird
• Montezuma's Chocolates, British chocolate manufacturer and retailer
• Montezuma, brand of tequila from Barton Brands
• Montezuma, a song by Fleet Foxes from their 2011 album Helplessness Blues
• Montezuma, a single by Cusco
• Montezuma, a taxonomic synonym of the plant genus Thespesia

See also

• Montezuma Affair, an 1835 naval battle between Mexico and the US
• Montezuma's revenge (disambiguation)
• Halls of Montezuma (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Montezuma" or "Motezuma" or "Moctezuma"