Coahuila y Tejas
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Estado Libre y Soberano de
Coahuila y Texas Coahuila y Tejas |
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| Capital | Saltillo Monclova (March 9, 1833) | ||||
| Government | Federated state | ||||
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| Legislature | Unicameral Congress | ||||
| • | Upper house | Congreso del Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas | |||
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| • | Mexican Independence | September 27, 1821 | |||
| • | Established | May 7, 1824 | |||
| • | Texas Revolution | October 2, 1835 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1835 | |||
| • | Texas statehood | December 29, 1845 | |||
| Area | |||||
| • | 1824 | 800,000 km2(308,882 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1828 | 70,955 | |||
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 Mexico-  Coahuila United States-  Texas
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| ^ a. The size of the state was about more than 800 000 square kilometers, Mexico never did a precise measurement of the territory of Coahuila y Tejas. | |||||
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Coahuila y Tejas (Coahuila and Texas) was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution.
It had two capitals: first Saltillo, years 1822-1825 for petition of Miguel Ramos Arizpe, that changing the capital for dispute of political groups, but Monclova recovered primacy because was the colonial capital since 1689, this action provoked the war of Saltillo people and Monclova people in 1838-1840, but political actions of Santa Anna convenced at monclovitas to accept the final change the political powers to Saltillo. In the case of Tejas her territory was organized with administrative purposes, the state was divided into three districts: Béxar, comprising the area covered by Texas; Monclova, comprising northern Coahuila; and Río Grande Saltillo, comprising southern Coahuila.
The state remained in existence until the adoption of the 1835 "Constitutional Bases", whereby the federal republic was converted into a unitary one, and the nation's states, (estados), were turned into departments (departamentos). The State of Coahuila and Texas was split in two and became the Department of Coahuila and the Department of Texas.
Both Coahuila and Texas seceded from Mexico because of Antonio López de Santa Anna's attempts to centralize the government. Texas eventually became the independent Republic of Texas, which in 1845 became a state of the United States of America. Coahuila joined with Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, to form the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande.
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