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Villa Guerrero is a town and municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is located on the southern slopes of the Nevado de Toluca, which is also known as "Xicnahuitecatl", is 50 minutes/58 km from Toluca. Its original name was Tequaloyan, which literally in Náhuatl means "place where there are wild beasts that devour men". The Prehispanic philosophy sais that, Tequani u Ocelotl, (Jaguar) was the symbol of West, where the sun goes underground, to make a nocturnal trip and visit the Mictlan or Dead World, sharing its trip with the Wolf Dog as a guide (or venus as Tlahuiscalpanteuhctli, lord of the rising, to born in the morning as a new flowered boon., 1 Probably the original name either comes from the previous existence of wild animals called "tecuani" (tē=someone, people; cuā=eat; ni=habitual suffix) as now noted in the coat of arms shield. Its name was changed in 1867 to honor the duty and courage of it inhabitants, who participated in many war success during the nineteenth century, as Independence battle 19 and 20 January 1812, National Guard in 1547 and help in Monterrey under command of. Santiago Tapia during American intervention, successful battle on September the 14th in 1857 versus general Jose Maria Cobos, anti liberal army, National guard at Puebla to fight the French Army on May the 5th of 1862. r. ==The town== Tequaloyan started out as an Ulmec settlement coming from the Gulf of Mexico, that is why the cult to the ocelot named Nahuatl Ocelotl Tequani giving significant to the name of the town and people (Tequanipas) surely was re-founded by the Otomis in the seventh century. Starting in the tenth century, it came under the influence of the Toltec and Teotihuacan civilizations. From 1221 to 1295, it was part of the Cuitlach Teuhctli domain. In 1472 the area was conquered by the Aztec Empire under Axayacatl. During this period, the town of Tequaloyan, along with some other communities rose in importance.〔 After the Spanish Conquest, the town became an administrative and political center, with the surrounding lands distributed to various conquistadors who created a number of haciendas including San Miguel, San José, and San Nicolás Buenavista. The natives were evangelized by Augustinians who came from neighboring Malinalco. While one of the first secular governors was Don Miguel Sanchez, who signed a title of land for neighbour Iztlahuatzinco, with the presence of Pedro de Gante and Alonso de Santiago in 1560. True separation of ecclesiastical and secular powers came about between 1692 and 1744 finalizing with the naming of Juan de la Cruz as Governor of Tequaloyan, with ecclesiastical authority in the area remaining with Malinalco and Tenancingo.〔 During the Mexican War of Independence, one battle between the insurgents and royalist forces took place here on January 3, 1812. Rosendo Porlier of the royalist forces attacked José María Oviedo of the rebels, who fortified the town and helped to defend it. Porlier returned on January 17 to attack Tequaloyan as the nearby ravine of the Texcaltenco River, leading to Oviedo's death. This hastened the arrival of José María Morelos, who along with Hermenegildo Galeana, Nicolás Bravo and Mariano Matamoros gathered a force of 3,200 men to defeat the royalist forces on the 19th and 20th of the same month, allowing the insurgents to win again at Tenancingo two days later.〔 Because of it size at the time (over 1,000 inhabitants), Tequaloyan was designated officially as a municipality with the promulgation of the Constitución Española de Cádiz in 1812, with Don Francisco Hernández as first mayor; however it belonged first to the municipality of Malinalco until 1826 when the town voted to secede. This is considered to be the foundation of the town's free municipal seat status.〔 During American Intervention, the inhabitants were rehabilitate as National Guard and fight with Mexican Army at Padierna and Molino del Reyn neighbourhood of Chapultepec in Mexico City. At the promulgation of Liberal Constitution in 1857, inhabitants of Tequaloyan, fight many times versus the Conservator Army commanded for Jose Maria Cobos and has a successful battle, on September the 14th, some time after, combat the French Army in Puebla on may the 5th, 1862, so at the end of Juarez Reform, its main town grow up to "Villa Guerrero", to honor duty and courage of the inhabitants. on April the 20th of 1867, not before at one tax trade to rebuild the official buildings. During the Mexican Revolution, on August 18, 1914, Constitutionalist forces under Lt. Col. Bruno Neira entered the town to confront those sympathetic to the Zapatista cause.〔 According with the results presented by INEGI in 2005, the town has a total of 18,437 inhabitants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Villa Guerrero, State of Mexico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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