Talk:Santa Fe de Nuevo México

The map

When you click on it, it fails to mention (at least) California as forming part of the yellow-shaded Mexican area. Why?

Contradiction?

Intendente says that Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico was instituted in 1834.--Rockero 23:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Intendente now gives the dates 1595 to 1824 which matches the late 16th century to early 19th century that's given here so I'm going to remove the contradiction notice. Kmusser 19:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Occurs to me that the confusion may be due to "Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico" being the name of the both the New Spain province and the territory of independant Mexico.Kmusser 19:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Why were my changes undone?

The New Mexico navbox belongs on this page, as it is included in that navbox and topic (literally Nuevo México). Another thing, is that Nuevo México was a Kingdom in New Spain, not a Province, that distinction is important in explaining the relative autonomy of the region. Another another thing, the vecino citizen-soldiers did become the New Mexico National Guard. The last thing to say, is that it was the citizen-soldiers that captured the Texan Expedition, not the Mexican military, since Governor of New Mexico was the one that captured the Texans outside of Santa Fe. All of these things are fairly common knowledge. 2601:8C2:8080:1BC0:6CB9:4CA4:4242:6A86 (talk) 19:44, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello! I did not revert your changes, but I'm guessing that the editor who reverted them did so because the edits were not sourced with references. See WP:BRD - if you can find sources, (since your contributions are "fairly common knowledge") they should be out there, you might want to include these in the discussion. Netherzone (talk) 23:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

What happened to the Pueblo after the Pueblo Revolt?

There is very little information on this article about the fate of the Pueblo after the Pueblo Revolt. It's hard to believe that nothing happened from then to American incorporation. What was Mexican occupation like? American occupation? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 05:00, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Typo or not?

Is this a possible typo: The infobox states that the terittory of "Santa Fe de Nuevo México" was part of the "Territory of the First Mexican Republic (1823-1848)".

But didn't the First Republic end in 1835. With the successive Centralist Republic existing between 1835-1846? So shouldn't we add another line for "Centralist Republic"? Danial Bass (talk) 10:35, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Ummm, "New" places ("New York", "New Iberia", etc.) are named after older places ("York", "Iberia", etc.).

So today I found this:

QUOTE:

Nuevo México is often incorrectly believed to have taken its name from the post-independent nation of Mexico. But as early as 1561[5] (260 years before Mexican independence), Spanish colonial explorers used el Nuevo México to refer to

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No. While common sense suggests that "New Mexico" or "Nuevo México" must be named after some other place that is called and has been called "Mexico" or "México" for some time-period not needing to be specified for the concept of "New Mexico" or "Nuevo México" to work, if you're going to say that it's commonly believed that "New Mexico" or "Nuevo México" are named after some exclusive time-period of the place called "Mexico" or "México", you need to cite some polling-information to back that up, and you don't. Nobody who says "New Mexico" or "Nuevo México" in the belief that it's a safe assumption that it's named after some other place, called "Mexico" or "México", has ever had the slightest opinion of which VERSION of Mexico or México is being referred to. They don't necessarily believe it's named after "Mexico the independent country" and they don't necessarily believe it's named after "Mexico the Spanish possession". They believe it's named after "Mexico that place south of the U.S.A. that has been known by the name of Mexico for a long time, both before and after it became a country". It's not specific as to time. Pointing out that the first use in print of "Nuevo México" is prior to Mexican independence doesn't really mean anything, other than that there was a placed called "Mexico" or "México" before it was an independent country adopting the same name.~2026-46238 (talk) 08:12, 10 January 2026 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson

Planned edits (2026)

Hey everyone, I am planning on making some edits to this page as a part of a college project. This article has been marked as needing citations in the history section. I plan on incorporating several sources to (1), support the claims that have already been included by other authors and (2) expand on what is currently there to provide a more informative article for viewers. Depending on whether I can substantiate the claims that were made by previous editors, some things may be removed. Pretz51 (talk) 03:57, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Latin America and the United States

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