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Trails taken by Spanish explorers from Mexico into Texas. The Spanish returned to southeastern Texas in 1716, establishing several missions and a presidio to maintain a buffer between Spanish territory and the Louisiana district of New France. San Antonio was founded in 1719 and became the capital and largest settlement of Spanish Tejas.
Texas; Spanish Texas, colonial province; Mexican Texas, territory of post-independence Mexico . Coahuila y Tejas, a state under the 1824 Mexican constitution that included the region of present-day Texas
One of the new states was Coahuila y Tejas, which combined the sparsely populated Spanish provinces of Texas and Coahuila. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The poorest state in the Mexican federation, [ 10 ] Coahuila y Tejas covered the boundaries of Spanish Texas but did not include the area around El Paso , which belonged to the state of Chihuahua and the area of ...
During Spanish colonial rule, in the 18th century, the area was known as Nuevas Filipinas ('New Philippines') and Nuevo Reino de Filipinas ('New Kingdom of the Philippines'), [20] or as provincia de los Tejas ('province of the Tejas '), [21] later also provincia de Texas (or de Tejas), ('province of Texas').
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
Texas currently does not have an official language, although historically there have been laws giving both official status and recognition to English, Spanish, German and Norwegian. In 1834, Degree No. 270 of Coahuila y Tejas gave both English and Spanish official status in Texas. [2]
Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico. Mexico gained independence in 1821 after winning its war against Spain, which began in 1810. Initially, Mexican Texas operated similarly to Spanish Texas.
During the Spanish colonial period of Texas, most colonial settlers of northern New Spain – including Texas, northern Mexico, and the American Southwest – were descendants of Spaniards. [ 25 ] Although the number of Tejanos whose families have lived in Texas since before 1836 is unknown, it was estimated that 5,000 Tejano descendants of San ...