Upper California
Upper California , Spanish Alta California , was the name of a territory of Mexico until 1848 , or before its independence from New Spain . The area largely coincides with the territory of what is now the US state of California , with the exception of the eastern border, which was not established until around 1850 and at that time still included the present-day states of Arizona , Nevada and parts of Utah .
The other two parts of California's Historic Territory are what are now the Mexican states of Baja California ( Baja California ) and Baja California Sur (Southern Baja California ).
Today, the names Upper California and Alta California have largely been forgotten and the area and state are only called California .
history
- For the history of discovery see California (historical landscape)
- Regarding the independence movement of 1846, see Junta of Monterey
- For the history of the US state of California, see History of California
literature
- Antonio Maria Osio: The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California (= translation of the Spanish-language original from 1851 by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz). University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1996, ISBN 978-0-299-14974-1 .
Web links
- California State University, Northridge: The European Discovery of Alta California in California History Online