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Chihuahua is a state in northern Mexico with a mainland area of 247,087 sq km (95,400.8 sq mi). It is surrounded by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the south-west, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east, and by the U.S. states of Texas to the north-east and New Mexico to the north. Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico by area, and therefore has the nickname El Estado Grande ("The Big State").

Chihuahua played a pivotal role in the Mexican Revolution and was a battleground between revolutionary forces led by Pancho Villa and federal forces.

Present-day Chihuahua, along with parts of what are now Durango, Coahuila, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, formed the New Spanish province of Nueva Vizcaya from 1562 until Mexico gained independence in 1821. Chihuahua was carved from the former province in 1823, and admitted as a state in 1824.

Chihuahua in Southern Victory[]

Chihuahua was a province of the Empire of Mexico until 1881, when it was purchased along with Sonora by the Confederate States, an act which precipitated the Second Mexican War, as the United States unsuccessfully sought to block the purchase.[1]

Following a period as Confederate territory, Chihuahua was admitted as a state. Chihuahua's support was decisive in the passing of the Confederate constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, which made some white Confederates from outside think that Chihuahua had become a state too soon to understand its new country.[2]

Chihuahua contributed troops to both the Great War and the Second Great War, although U.S. forces mostly left the state alone, causing it to see little to no action in all wars between the CSA and USA. Chihuahua, like Sonora, was dominated by the Radical Liberal Party before becoming a Freedom Party stronghold after the Great War.

Although Sonora and Chihuahua had both been Mexican states, and maintained a strongly Mexican culture, there was a level of rivalry between the two, in matters such as soccer.

Chihuahua, like all Confederate states, was occupied by US forces after the end of the Second Great War.

Chihuahua in The Two Georges[]

Nueva Vizcaya was a province of Nueva España. It bordered Mexico to the south, Sinacoa to the west, Nuevo León to the east, and the North American Union provinces of Phoenix and Cranmer to the north.[3]

Literary comment[]

In addition to OTL Chihuahua, Nueva Vizcaya seems to contain Durango and a fair bit of Coahuila as well. The map is far from precise as to the exact borders. The Bay of Vizcaya (Biscay) is the section of the Atlantic Ocean between western France and northern Spain.

References[]

  1. How Few Remain.
  2. American Front, pg. 18.
  3. The Two Georges, frontispiece map.
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