Montezuma

Montezuma, Moctezuma, Moteczoma, Motecuhzoma, Moteuczomah, Mwatazuma, are variant spellings and may refer to:

• Moctezuma II (1466–1520), ninth Aztec Emperor, ruler at the beginning of the Spanish conquest of Mexico
• Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, Spanish hereditary title held by descendants of Moctezuma II
• Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born 1940), Mexican archaeologist

Operas

• Motezuma, 1733 opera by Antonio Vivaldi (until recently known under the title Montezuma)
• Montezuma (Graun), 1755 opera by Carl Heinrich Graun
• Motezuma (Mysliveček), 1771 opera by Josef Mysliveček
• Montesuma, 1781 opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
• Montezuma (opera) (1963), by Roger Sessions
• Die Eroberung von Mexiko (1987–91), music drama by Wolfgang Rihm, libretto by Antonin Artaud and Octavio Paz
• La conquista, 2005 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero

Places

In Australia

• Montezuma Falls, Tasmania

In Brazil

• Montezuma, Minas Gerais

In Costa Rica

• Montezuma, Costa Rica

In Mexico

• Metro Moctezuma, a station on the Mexico City Metro
• Moctezuma, Sonora
• Balcón de Montezuma, an archaeological site in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico
• Moctezuma, San Luis Potosí, a municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí

In the United States

• Montezuma, California, ghost town in Tuolumne County
• Montezuma Hills, California
• Montezuma, Colorado
• Montezuma County, Colorado
• Montezuma, Georgia
• Montezuma, Indiana
• Montezuma, Iowa
• Montezuma, Kansas
• Montezuma, New Mexico
  • Montezuma Castle (hotel), former hotel, now campus of a United World College
• Montezuma, New York
• Montezuma, North Carolina
• Montezuma, Ohio
• Montezuma, Tennessee
• Montezuma Creek, Utah
  • Montezuma Creek (San Juan River)
• Montezuma, Virginia
• Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

Ships

• Chilean sloop Moctezuma
• USS Montezuma (1798)

Others

• Montezuma (BBC documentary), 2009 TV documentary
• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Camp Verde, Arizona
• Montezuma (mythology)
• Moctezuma de Orizaba, defunct Mexican soccer (football) team
• Montezuma, brand of tequila from Barton Brands
• Montezuma's, a Mexican restaurant franchise in Australia
• Montezuma, a song by Fleet Foxes from their 2011 album Helplessness Blues.

See also

• Montezuma's revenge
• All pages with titles containing "Montezuma" or "Motezuma" or "Moctezuma"