Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alta California (English: Upper California) was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory, created in 1804 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, included the area now comprising the southwestern United States. Neither Spain nor Mexico ever colonized most of the huge territory, however, so effective government control never extended much beyond southern Arizona and coastal California (as far north as Sonoma). Interior areas remained in possession of Native American tribes.Alta California ceased to exist with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848, becoming a territory of the United States that eventually joined the union as the states of California (1850), Nevada (1864), Utah (1896) and Arizona (1912). The ceded territory also included the western half of Colorado (1876) and the southwestern part of Wyoming (1890).. }
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- Alta_California abstract "Alta California (English: Upper California) was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory, created in 1804 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, included the area now comprising the southwestern United States. Neither Spain nor Mexico ever colonized most of the huge territory, however, so effective government control never extended much beyond southern Arizona and coastal California (as far north as Sonoma). Interior areas remained in possession of Native American tribes.Alta California ceased to exist with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848, becoming a territory of the United States that eventually joined the union as the states of California (1850), Nevada (1864), Utah (1896) and Arizona (1912). The ceded territory also included the western half of Colorado (1876) and the southwestern part of Wyoming (1890).".