Comancheria

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Comancheria was the vast 18th–19th century territory controlled by the Comanche people across parts of present-day Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.

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Comanche Territory 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Comanche territory
historical region
territory
associatedColonialPower Mexico NERFINISHED
Republic of Texas NERFINISHED
Spain NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
associatedEvent Red River War NERFINISHED
associatedPeople Quanah Parker NERFINISHED
borderedBy Apacheria NERFINISHED
Spanish New Mexico NERFINISHED
Spanish Texas NERFINISHED
territories of the Kiowa
territories of the Pawnee
territories of the Ute
controlledBy Comanche people NERFINISHED
culturalRegionType Plains Indian territory NERFINISHED
declineCause U.S. military campaigns
bison extermination
disease epidemics
declinePeriod late 19th century
economyBasedOn bison hunting
horse raiding
trade in captives
trade in horses
ethnicallyAssociatedWith Comanche NERFINISHED
historicalRole buffer zone between Spanish colonies and other Native peoples
center of Comanche power in the Southern Plains
knownFor horse culture
mounted warfare
raiding networks
trade networks
languageOfRulers Comanche language NERFINISHED
locatedIn North America
present-day Colorado
present-day Kansas
present-day New Mexico
present-day Oklahoma
present-day Texas
present-day United States
nameLanguage Spanish
nameMeaning land of the Comanche
partOf Great Plains
Southern Plains NERFINISHED
politicalStructure loosely organized bands
timePeriod 18th century
19th century

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Texas frontier borderWith Comancheria
Macdonald Carey performedIn Comancheria
this entity surface form: Comanche Territory
Lords of the Plains relatedTo Comancheria