Spanish New Mexico

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Spanish New Mexico was a distant northern frontier province of the Spanish Empire in North America, centered around the upper Rio Grande and encompassing parts of present-day New Mexico and surrounding regions.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Spanish colonial government of New Mexico 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf frontier region
province of the Spanish Empire
administrativeCenter Santa Fe de Nuevo México NERFINISHED
borderedBy Apache territories
Comancheria NERFINISHED
Spanish Provincias Internas NERFINISHED
Spanish Texas NERFINISHED
capital Santa Fe NERFINISHED
country Spanish Empire
currency Spanish real NERFINISHED
economy local trade
sheep herding
subsistence agriculture
endTime 1821
ethnicGroup Apache NERFINISHED
Comanche NERFINISHED
Genízaros NERFINISHED
Hispano settlers
Navajo NERFINISHED
Pueblo peoples NERFINISHED
followedBy Mexican Territory of New Mexico NERFINISHED
governmentType Spanish colonial administration
hasColonialStatus remote frontier province
legalSystem Spanish colonial law
locatedIn North America
present-day New Mexico
present-day United States
upper Rio Grande region
militaryConflict Pueblo Revolt NERFINISHED
Spanish–Comanche conflicts NERFINISHED
Spanish–Navajo conflicts NERFINISHED
Spanish–Pueblo conflicts
namedAfter New Mexico NERFINISHED
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Provincias Internas NERFINISHED
Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED
northern frontier of New Spain
precededBy indigenous Pueblo polities
religion Catholic missions
Roman Catholicism
significantEvent Oñate expedition of 1598 NERFINISHED
Pueblo Revolt of 1680 NERFINISHED
Spanish reconquest of 1692 NERFINISHED
founding of Santa Fe in 1610
integration into independent Mexico in 1821
startTime 1598
strategicRole buffer against rival indigenous powers
northern outpost of Spanish Catholic missionization

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Spanish Louisiana borderedBy Spanish New Mexico
Crown of Spain hasPart Spanish New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt of 1680 opponent Spanish New Mexico
this entity surface form: Spanish colonial government of New Mexico