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Encycl. Americana, 1975
(San Antonio; Tex.: Spanish expedition discovered the San Antonio River on June 13,1691 near a Couhuiltecan Indian village Yanaguana [no publs. in LC]; they named the site San Antonio de Padua [no publs. in LC]; no permanent settlement was made until 1718 a town, Villa de Bejar (later called Bexar) [no publs. in LC], a fort, Presidio de Bejar [no publs. in LC], and the Mission San Antonio de Valero (later known as the Alamo) were est. San Fernando de Bejar, was located a little west of Presidio de Bejar; by 1791 the three settlements, San Fernando de Bejar, Villa de Bejar, and Mission San Antonio de Valero had come to be considered as one, San Antonio de Bejar. Texas became a republic in 1836 and San Antonio was incorporated June 5, 1837; in 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union)
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Encycl. Brit., 1977
(San Antonio; Texas: f. 5/1/1718 on the site of a Coahuiltecan Indian village by a Spanish military expedition; in 1731 settlers from the Canary Islands laid out a town near the Spanish presidio (garrison), and together with the Mission San Antonio de Valero (also est. 1718 across the river) it became known as San Antonio de Bejar (Bexar))
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Its Ayuntamiento. Troubles in Texas, 1832:
p. 1 (Bexar, as San Antonio was known in 1832)
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Columbia encyclopedia, 1963
(San Antonio; mission, San Antonio de Valero, and presidio, San Antonio de Bejar or Bexar founded in 1718; San Antonio was most important Texas settlement in Spanish and Mexican days)
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GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009
(ppl; 29°25?27?N 098°29?37?W)
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Wikipedia, February 14, 2023
(San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Bexar County, Texas; the seat of Bexar County)