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Louisiana (Spanish: La Luisiana, [la lwiˈsjana]), [1] or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 primarily located in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans. The area had originally been claimed and controlled by France ...
The national flag of Spain (Spanish: Bandera de España) [ a ], as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being twice the height of each red stripe. Traditionally, the middle stripe was defined by the more archaic term of gualda, and hence the popular name la ...
New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had dense indigenous populations at conquest as a source of labor and material wealth in the form of vast silver deposits, discovered and exploited beginning in the mid-1500s.
Proportion. 13∶20. Adopted. July 1, 1912. (1912-07-01) (modifications in 2006 and 2010) Design. A rectangular field of blue with the arms of Louisiana, the pelican vulning herself, in white in the center, with a ribbon beneath, also in white, containing in blue the state motto, "Union Justice Confidence". The flag of Louisiana consists of a ...
Three Flags Day commemorates March 9, and 10, 1804, when Spain officially completed turning over the Louisiana colonial territory to France, who then officially turned over the same lands to the United States, in order to finalize the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The ceremony in St. Louis cleared the way for Lewis and Clark to begin their exploration.
Autonomous communities. Arbonaida, the Flag of Andalucia. Flag of Aragon. Flag of the Principality of Asturias. Flag of the Balearic Islands. Ikurriña, the flag of the Basque Country. Flag of the Canary Islands. Flag of Cantabria. Flag of Castile-La Mancha.