The Crown and the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Kingdom of New Spain was established on 18 August 1521, following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as a New World kingdom ruled by the Crown of Castile.The initial funds for exploration came from Queen Isabella. Although New Spain was a dependency of Castile, it was a kingdom and not a colony, subject to the …

Louisiana (French: La Louisiane; La Louisiane française) or French Louisiana was an administrative district of New France.Under French control from 1682 to 1769 and 1801 (nominally) to 1803, the area was named in honor of King Louis XIV, by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle.It originally covered an expansive territory that included most …

New Orleans (/ ˈ ɔːr l (i) ə n z / OR-l(ee)ənz, / ɔːr ˈ l iː n z / or-LEENZ, locally / ˈ ɔːr l ə n z / OR-lənz; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃] (), Spanish: Nueva Orleans) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it ...

Spanish Louisiana (Spanish: la Luisiana) was a governorate and administrative district of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 that consisted of a vast territory in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans.The area had originally been claimed and controlled by France, which had named it La Louisiane in …

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New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México [ˈnweβo ˈmexiko] (); Navajo: Yootó Hahoodzo [jòːtʰó hɑ́hòːtsò]; Classical Nahuatl: Yancuic Mexico [jankʷik meːʃiʔko]) is a state in the Southwestern United States.It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region of the western U.S. with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona, and bordering Texas to …

New Roads (historically French: Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The center of population of Louisiana was located in New Roads in 2000. The population was 4,831 at the 2010 census, down from 4,966 in 2000.The city's ZIP code is 70760. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area

The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km 2; 530,000,000 acres) …

Dec 02, 2009 · The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 introduced about 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France into the United States, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. Explore the facts about ...

Flag. The Louisiana Creole flag is based on four flags of different regions. The top left corner is a fleur-de-lis representing France, the top right is Senegal, the bottom right represents Castile (Spain), and the bottom left square is Mali.. The flag was created by Pete Bergeron of the non-profit organization C.R.E.O.L.E. INC in 1987 and celebrates the many cultures that influence ...