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<journal-id>0185-2620</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-2620</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-26202023000100243</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iih.24485004e.2023.65.77818</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[¿Champotón o Potonchán? Del error geográfico al error histórico]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Champotón or Potonchán? From Geographical to Historical Error]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Iturriaga]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José N.]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,jniturriagaf@yahoo.com.mx  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>65</numero>
<fpage>243</fpage>
<lpage>263</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-26202023000100243&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-26202023000100243&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-26202023000100243&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Desde el siglo XVI hasta el XXI, muchos historiadores han confundido Champotón (en Campeche) con Potonchán (en Tabasco). El asunto no es menor, pues no se trata solamente de un error toponímico o silábico, sino de una confusión de lugares donde acaecieron sucesos diametralmente opuestos. Se muestra cómo el error del más afamado de los cronistas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, pudo arrastrar a decenas de generaciones de historiadores, desde Oviedo, Torquemada, Herrera, Argensola, Cogolludo, Solís, Prescott y Orozco y Berra hasta Cunninghame, Ramírez Cabañas, Gurría Lacroix, José Luis Martínez, Juan Miralles y Christian Duverger, entre otros muchos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract From the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, many historians have mistaken Champotón (in Campeche) for Potonchán (in Tabasco). This is no small issue, as it is not a matter of a mere toponymical or syllabic error, for it involves the mixing-up of two places where diametrically opposed events took place. The article shows how an error from the most famous of chroniclers, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, dragged with it tenths of generations of historians, from Oviedo, Torquemada, Herrera, Argensola, Cogolludo, Solís, Prescott, and Orozco y Berra, to Cunninghame, Ramírez Cabañas, Gurría Lacroix, José Luis Martínez, Juan Miralles and Christian Duverger, among many others.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Champotón]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mala Pelea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Bernal Díaz]]></kwd>
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