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Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza / Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza

Presentation of Coahuila de Zaragoza
Coat of arms
Coat of arms on white background (unofficial flag)
Supposed 1821-1836 Coahuila and Texas State flag

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Official web page of Coahuila de Zaragoza
Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villasc�n October 9, 2001

Presentation of Coahuila de Zaragoza:

Official name:	Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza / Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza
Short-form names:	Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza / State of Coahuila de Zaragoza; Coahuila de Zaragoza; Coahuila.
Location:	North of Mexico. It neighbors the States of Chihuahua (W), Durango (SW), Zacatecas (S), Nuevo León (E), and the United States of America (N).
Area:	149,511 km²
Municipalities:	38
Population:	2'295,808 inhabitants
Capital:	Saltillo (Pop.: 510,131 -1995-)
Statehood:	February 5, 1857
Arms adopted:	Unknown date.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villasc�n, October 06, 2001.

Supposed 1821-1836 Coahuila and Texas State flag

Christ Pinette, July 21, 2000.

This is the flag of the state of Coahuila y Tejas used in the 1820s and 1830s. It uses the Mexican tricolor and two stars to represent the regions of Coahuila and Tejas. Col. Juan Almonte, aid to Santa Ana, states in his journal entry about the Siege and Battle of the Alamo : "the enemy, as soon as the march of the division was seen, hoisted the tri-colored flag with two stars, designed to represent Coahuila and Texas". The Mexican officer and engineer Carlos Sanchez-Navarro, who participated in the siege of the Alamo in Mar 1836 in his memoirs, La Guerra de Tejas, Memorias de un Soldado, shows in a illustration the flag of Coahuila y Tejas flying over the Alamo.
There is some disagreement over the color of the stars. Different sources have the stars as gold, green, or blue.
Reported by Chris Pinette, July 21, 2000.