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Keywords:
Viceroyalty,
Mexico,
Spain,
Mesoamerica,
Viceroy
now known as Mexico.
What we call Mexico.
Present day Mexico, with its headquarters in Mexico City.
(English) The name that Spain gave to her northern Viceroyalty, which comprised the modern regions of Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. The capital city was Mexico City.
Spanish colonial possessions in Mesoamerica; included most of central Mexico; based on imperial system of Aztecs. (p. 588)
Viceroyalty of New Spain was the name of the viceroy-ruled territories of the Spanish Empire in Asia, North America and its peripheries from 1535 to 1821.
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