Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1690 until 1821. The term "interior provinces" first appeared in 1712, as an expression meaning "far away" provinces. It was only in 1776 that a legal …

Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas independence movement or Texit, refers to the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address the …

The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadores from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. For hundreds of years the cattle lived a semi-feral …

Within boundaries of Spanish Texas. Spanish Texas was a part of New Spain.On its southern edge, Texas was bordered by the province of Coahuila.The boundary between the provinces was set at the line formed by the Medina and the Nueces Rivers, 100 miles (161 km) northeast of the Rio Grande. On the east, Texas bordered French Louisiana.Although Spain claimed that the …

The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy (Spanish: Constitución Política de la Monarquía Española), also known as the Constitution of Cádiz (Spanish: Constitución de Cádiz) and as La Pepa, was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest codified constitutions in world history. The Constitution was ratified on 19 March 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, the first …

Texas County is a county located in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its county seat is Guymon. ... 65.7% spoke English and 33.1% Spanish as their first language. married couples living together, 7.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.60% were non-families. 21.20% of all households were made up of individuals ...

Terlingua (/ t ər ˈ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə / tər-LING-gwə) is a mining district and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States.It is located near the Rio Grande and the villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas, as well as the Mexican state of Chihuahua.The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought …

Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states and one dependent territory, totaling around 442 million people. This includes Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language. In these countries and territories, Spanish is the main or mostly used language of communication of the vast majority of the population; official …

Bexar County (/ b ɛər / BAIR or / ˈ b eɪ ər / BAY-ər; Spanish: Béxar) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.It is in South Texas and its county seat is San Antonio.. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,009,324. Bexar County is included in the San Antonio–New Braunfels, TX metropolitan statistical area.It is the 16th-most populous county in the nation and the fourth …

The Spanish goat, also called the brush goat or scrub goat, came originally from Spain via Mexico to the USA.It is now a meat and brush-clearing type found widely in the United States. In the Southeast and elsewhere, they are often referred to as "wood" (Florida), "brush" or "briar" (North Carolina, South Carolina), "hill" (Virginia), and "scrub" (midwest Pennsylvania) goats.