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Mauvilla (disambiguation)
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Mauvilla
The term "Mauvilla" or "Maubilla" has had numerous uses for over 500 years:
Places
- the word "Mauvilla" (also "Maubilla") which became: Mavilla, Mauvila, Maubila. By 1693, the name had become fairly standardized as "Mobila" or "Movila".
- variant of Mabila, a Mississippian fortress town of Chief Tuskaloosa, who ambushed Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition in 1540. The tribe by this name later encountered by the French around Mobile Bay are theorized by scholars to be descended from this group of people.
- the origin of the name for Mobile, Alabama
- the Bahia de la Mobila, which was named in English Mobile Bay (earlier as Bahia de Espiritu Santo)
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