Otomis
a tribe of Mexican Indians, and one of the oldest nations in the mountainous regions of the plateau.
They were agriculturists and had some knowledge of the manufacture of cloth and ornaments of gold and copper. During the siege of Mexico they came to the assistance of Cortez (in 1521), and have ever since been nominally in subjection to the whites. They accepted the Catholic faith, but have made little progress in civilization. Their descendants, about 200,000, mostly live in the mountains of Querétaro, Guanajuato and Hidalgo.
They speak Spanish and Mexican.
OTRANTO (the ancient Hydruntum), a town in the extreme S. E. of Italy, 29 miles S. E. of Lecce, and on the Strait of Otranto, 45 miles from the coast of Albania on the opposite side. During the later period of the Roman empire, and all through the Middle Ages, it was the chief port of Italy on the Adriatic, whence passengers took ship for Greece -having in this respect supplanted the famous Brundusium of earlier times; but its port is now in decay.
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