Mauvilla

The term "Mauvilla" or "Maubilla" has had numerous uses for over 500 years: ^[1]

Places

• the word "Mauvilla" (also "Maubilla") which became: Mavilla, Mauvila, Maubila. By 1693, the name had become fairly standardized as "Mobila" or "Movila".^[1]
• variant of Mabila, a Mississippian fortress town of Chief Tuskaloosa, who ambushed Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition in 1540.^[2] 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.^[2]
• 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)

People

• the native tribe Mauvila (or Maubila), also known as the Mobilian tribe in Alabama

Other

• the towboat Mauvilla in the 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck near Mobile, Alabama

References

1. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711, Jay Higginbotham, 1991, 592 pages, page 21, Google Books webpage: books-google-JH21.
2. ""The Old Mobile Project Newsletter"" (PDF). "University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies". Retrieved 2007-11-19. line feed character in |work= at position 55 (help)