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Tejas, roofing tiles used in late (post-1790) California mission architecture; Tejas and Jayhawk, code names for a microprocessor developed by Intel; Tejas Club, a student organization at the University of Texas at Austin
The Spanish knew the Hasinai as the Tejas or Texas, from a form of greeting meaning "friend", which gave the state of Texas its name. [3] Variants of Hasinai include: Hasini, Asenai, Asinai, Assoni, Asenay, Cenis, Senis, Sannaye, [3] Asinaiz, Asinayes, Assinais, Azinais, Azinays. [4]
Alternative etymologies of the name advanced in the late 19th century connected the name Texas with the Spanish word teja, meaning 'roof tile', the plural tejas being used to designate Indigenous Pueblo settlements. [24] A 1760s map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin shows a village named Teijas on the Trinity River, close to the site of modern Crockett ...
In 1836, the Anglo-Americans declared independence from Mexico and established the Republic of Texas, an independent nation. [2] The name "Texas" is derived from the Hasinai word táysha, through the Spanish Tejas, meaning "friend". [25] [26] On December 29, 1845, the US admitted Texas as a state.
"Coahuila and Texas" in the Handbook of Texas Online; Coahuila y Tejas: From liberal federalism to centralista dictatorship; Compendium of Mexican Constitutions (in Spanish) "Map of the state of Coahuila and Texas / W. Hooker, sculpt." Portal to Texas History "Laws and Decrees of Coahuila and Texas" Gammel's Laws of Texas, Vol. I. Hathi Trust.
The Republic of Texas (Spanish: República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America. [5] It existed for close to 10 years, from March 2, 1836 to February 19, 1846. Texas shared borders with Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande (another Mexican breakaway republic), and the United States of America. The Republic of ...
Ranchero de Texas (1828). Tejano vaqueros were very different from the Mexican vaqueros of central Mexico, both in their costumes and customs. Tejanos were very humble in their dress; their saddles, while being Mexican in origin, were rough and heavy and lacked the finesse of the central Mexico saddles.
Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo. Thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language, which the immigrants called "an unknown tongue."