Name of Mexico It was rebuilt during the following three years, after which it was designated as a municipality and capital of the vice-royalty of New Spain. In 1524 the municipality of Mexico City was established, known as "México Tenustitlan", and as of 1585 became officially known simply as "Ciudad de México". The name "Mexico" was used only to refer to the city, and later to a province within New Spain. It was not until the independence of the vice-royalty of New Spain that "Mexico" became the traditional and conventional short-form name of the country. During the 1810s, different insurgent groups advocated and
'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