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Santa Fe (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ f eɪ, ˈ s æ n t ə f eɪ / SAN-tə FAY, - fay; Spanish:) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.With over 89,000 residents, [5] Santa Fe is the fourth-most populous city in the state, [6] and part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020.
Spanish Fork, Utah (its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route ...
1836 — Texas claims all land in the territory east of the Rio Grande, including Santa Fe; the claim is never reified. September 1841 — The 320 members of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition fail to capture Santa Fe or any part of the territory. 1846 — General Stephen W. Kearny's army enters Santa Fe via the Santa Fe Trail without opposition.
Bartolomé Baca (c. 1767 – 1834), Governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México Polly Baca , American politician who served as Chair of the Democratic Caucus of the Colorado House of Representatives (1976–1979), being the first woman to hold that office and the first Hispanic woman elected to the Colorado State Senate and in the House and Senate of ...
The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México
Nov. 30—Santa Fe author Trent Zelazny died Thursday of acute liver failure on what would have been his 48th birthday, according to a social media post from his sister Shannon Zelazny. Zelazny ...
Santa Claus, Indiana. Founded in 1854 as Santa Fe, the name was changed two years later to avoid confusion with another Indiana town of the same name.
The first capital was San Juan de los Caballeros (at San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge) from 1598 until 1610, and from 1610 onward the capital was La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís. The name of "New Mexico", the capital in Santa Fe, the gubernatorial office at the Palace of the Governors, vecino citizen-soldiers, and rule of law ...