St. Augustine [1] ( St. Augustine , Spanish name San Agustin , Spanish San Agustín ) is the oldest existing US city [2] , the administrative center of St. Johns County on the Atlantic coast in the north-eastern part of the state Florida
| City | |||
| St. Augustine | |||
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| English St. Augustine Spanish San agustín | |||
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| A country |  USA | ||
| State | Florida | ||
| County | St johns | ||
| The mayor | Joseph Bowles ( English Joseph L. Boles ) | ||
| History and Geography | |||
| Founded | 1565 | ||
| Area | 27.8 km² | ||
| Center height | 1.52 m | ||
| Climate type | subtropical | ||
| Timezone | UTC − 5 ; summer UTC − 4 | ||
| Population | |||
| Population | 14 390 people ( 2014 ) | ||
| Density | 534.7 people / km² | ||
| Agglomeration | 1 277 997 | ||
| Official language | English | ||
| Digital identifiers | |||
| Telephone code | +1 904 | ||
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| staugustinegovernment.com | |||
Located 61 km from the city of Jacksonville . With St. Augustine begins the "inter-Atlantic waterway."
The population of 12 975 inhabitants. ( 2010 ).
Content
- 1 History
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
History
In 1513, at the place where the city now stands, Columbus's satellite, Juan Ponce de Leon , landed in search of a source of youth fanned by legends. He named this land Florida and declared it the possession of the Spanish crown . In 1564, the mouth of the St. Johns River attracted the attention of the French, who founded Fort Carolen here. The Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles was sent to these parts to oust the competitors the next year. Arriving at their destination on St. Augustine , Menendez ravaged the French colony and laid in its place the fort of St. Augustine ( San Agustin )
With the intensification of rivalry between the Spaniards and the British, the first strengthened San Agustin by erecting a massive gloomy fortress of St. Mark ( 1672 ). Now it is a monument of national importance - the oldest stone stronghold on American territory. Among the many British attacks on San Agustin, the robbery committed in the 16th century by Sir Francis Drake and the siege of San Agustin by the founder of the colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, are especially famous. In 1763, the British finally captured the fortress of St. Mark and kept her for 20 years. During the American War of Independence , supporters of King George flocked here from all over America. In 1819, San Agustin, in English pronunciation St. Augustine, moved to the United States and the fortress was turned into a prison for holding captive seminals , their leader Osceola was imprisoned here.
Currently, the city lives off tourism . Monuments of colonial architecture were partly restored, partly rebuilt in antiquity. Other attractions include the Catholic Cathedral ( 1793–97 ), the “oldest house”, “the oldest school”, the lighthouse of 1824 and the alligator farm, founded in 1893 .
Notes
- ↑ United States of America // Atlas of the World / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 169. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ Saint Augustine (Florida, United States ) . - article from Encyclopædia Britannica Online .
Literature
- Marley, David F. (2005), "United States: St. Augustine", Historic Cities of the Americas , vol. 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 627+, ISBN 978-1-57607-027-7
Links
- The st Augustine Record - daily print and online newspaper of the city. Date of treatment July 20, 2014.
- Corbett, Theodore G. Migration to a Spanish Imperial Frontier in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: St. Augustine // The Hispanic American Historical Review : journal. - 1974. - Vol. 54 , no. 3 . - P. 414-430 . - DOI : 10.2307 / 2512931 .
- Castillo de San Marcos official website , US National Park Service