Nueva Galicia
New Galicia
Nueva Galicia | |
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Province & Intendancy | |
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (in Spanish) New Kingdom of Galicia | |
Guadalajara | |
Capital | Guadalajara |
Established | c.1531 |
Dissolved | 1824 |
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; Galician: Reino de Nova Galicia) or simply Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, Nova Galicia) was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.[1] It was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia's territory consisted of the present-day Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas.[2]
History
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Spanish exploration of the area began in 1531 with
Guzmán's violent conquest left Spanish control of the area unstable, and within a decade full war had reemerged between the settlers and the Native peoples of the area. The
Given the growing wealth of the region with the discovery of silver to the north, especially in
There are a number of published chronicles on colonial Nueva Galicia. A 1621 account by Domingo Lázaro de Arregui, Descripción de la Nueva Galicia gives considerable information about the indigenous peoples of the area.[3][4]
In the late 18th century, as part of the Bourbon Reforms, an Intendancy was established in Guadalajara. In 1824, after Mexican independence was consolidated, the kingdom was transformed into the State of Jalisco and the Territory of Colima.
First territorial division
- Province of Nueva Galicia: Aguascalientes, Nayarit and Jalisco.
- Province of Los Zacatecas: Zacatecas.
- Province of Colima: Colima.
Second territorial division
- Intendancy of Guadalajara: Aguascalientes, Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima.
- Intendancy of Zacatecas: Zacatecas.
See also
- Real Audiencia of Guadalajara
- List of governors of New Galicia
- La Gran Chichimeca
- History of Mexico
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-04280-3.
- ^ Provincias Mayores del Reino de Nueva Galicia (Spanish) Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ J. Benedict Warren, "An Introductory Survey of Secular Writings in the European Tradition on Colonial Middle America, 1503-1818, entry 105. "Domingo Lázaro de Arregui" in Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 13, Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. Howard F. Cline, volume editor. Austin: University of Texas Press 1973, p. 95.
- ^ Domingo Lázaro Arregui, Descripción de la Nueva Galicia. Edición y estudio por François Chevalier. Prólogo de John Van Horne. Seville 1946.
Further reading
- Altman, Ida (2010). The War for Mexico's West : Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. OCLC 505913445.
- Parry, J. H. (1940). "The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century". Cambridge Historical Journal. 6 (3): 263–282. ISSN 1474-6913.
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