Name of Mexico Caribbean and the Philippines. Since New Spain was not actually a state or a contiguous part of land, in modern times it would have been a jurisdiction under the command of the authorities in modern Mexico City. Under the Spaniards, Mexico was both the name of the capital and its sphere of influence, most of which exists as Greater Mexico City and the State of Mexico. Some parts of Puebla, Morelos and Hidalgo were also part of Spanish-era Mexico. In 1821, the continental part of New Spain seceded from Spain during the Trienio Liberal, in which Agustin de Iturbide marched
's-Hertogenbosch and post-graduate level (PhD). 's-Hertogenbosch 's-Hertogenbosch (, literally "The Duke's Forest" in English, and historically in French: Bois-le-Duc ), colloquially known as Den Bosch (, literally "The Forest" in English), is a city and municipality in the Southern Netherlands with a population of 152,968. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant. The city's official name is a contraction of the Dutch "des Hertogen bosch"—"the Duke's forest". The duke in question was Duke Henry I of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries. He founded a new town located