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Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=June 7, 2011 )〕 it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.〔()〕 The population was 277,454 at the 2000 census; in 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 285,175,〔()〕 making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It is the principal city of the three-county Corpus Christi Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area. The translation from Latin of the city's name is ''Body of Christ'', given to the settlement by the Spanish, in honor of the Blessed Sacrament (Eucharist). The city has been nicknamed ''The Sparkling City by the Sea,'' particularly in literature promoting tourism. Before Corpus Christi was known as Kinney's Rancho or Kinney's Ranch it was on a site known as the Old Indian Trading Grounds where traders smuggled contraband goods to sell and trade in Mexico as early as 1829.〔Givens, Murphey. "(City Built on Old Trading Grounds )" Caller-Times. November 25, 2009. Web. January 16, 2015. 〕 ==Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War== Corpus Christi was founded in 1839 by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney as Kinney's Trading Post, or Kinney's Ranch, a small trading post to sell supplies to a Mexican revolutionary army camped about 25 miles west, just three years after Texas declared independence from Mexico but the post was located in the disputed territory south of the Nueces River.〔()〕 In July 1845, U.S. troops under General Zachary Taylor set up camp there in preparation for war with Mexico, where they remained until March 1846, when they marched south to the Rio Grande to enforce it as the southern border of the United States.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Corpus Christi, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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