New Kingdom of León

New Kingdom of León
*Nuevo Reino de León* (Spanish)
New Kingdom of León Nuevo Reino de León (Spanish)
1582–1821
	Cross of Burgundy,; flag of New Spain. Coat of arms
	Ferdinand VII
Simón de Herrera y Leyva
Historical era	Colonial era
• Established	1582
• Disestablished	1821
Population
• 1790	43,739
Currency	Spanish colonial real
	Succeeded by
First Mexican Empire
Today part of	Mexico

The New Kingdom of León (

Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was located in an area corresponding generally to the present-day northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León

.

Origins

It was founded in 1582 by Spanish and Portuguese settlers when

Luis de Carabajal y Cueva the title of first governor and captain-general of this new province in New Spain. The foundation of this realm was a crucial event which potentially helped the subsequent Spanish settlements in Texas

.

Language

The official language of the settlers was the Spanish language though some settlers spoke the Leonese language from the Kingdom of León in Spain,^[1] which evolved with Spanish in the New World.

History

Though the New Kingdom of León was part of the

Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas, which split in 1786 into three commands, one of them being the Eastern Internal Provinces (Provincias Internas de Oriente) consisting of the New Kingdom of León and the provinces of Coahuila, Tejas, and Nuevo Santander

; subsequently it remained part of the comandancy until 1821 when it and the rest of Mexico became an independent republic.

Today

When Mexico declared the independence from Spain, the territory of the Nuevo Reyno de León became the "Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León", or 'Free and Sovereign State of New León.'