Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas ( Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia ), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.

In 1839, a small pioneer settlement situated on the Colorado River in central Texas was chosen as the republic's seventh and final capital.

After the acquisition by Spain of the French territory of Louisiana in 1763, the capital of the Spanish province of Texas was established on the east side of the river, near present-day Robeline, Louisiana.

* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.

* Texas finishes its 3 million dollar state capital building in Austin.

The former province of Spanish Texas became part of a newly created state, Coahuila y Tejas, whose capital was at Saltillo, hundreds of miles from the former Texas capital, San Antonio de Bexar ( now San Antonio, Texas, USA ).

The city served as the main port for the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and later served as the capital of the Republic of Texas.

Galveston served as the capital of the Republic of Texas when in 1836 interim president David G. Burnet relocated his government there.

Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas.

: Congress of the Republic of Texas chooses Waterloo as the site of the new capital, renames it Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The capital was moved to the new town of Austin in 1839 by the next president, Mirabeau B. Lamar.

The city of Houston served as the capital until President Mirabeau Lamar signed a measure that moved the capital to Austin on January 14, 1839.

" Austin County is not to be confused with the city of Austin, the state capital city that lies in Travis County approximately 110 miles to the northwest.

After Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau B. Lamar visited the area during a buffalo-hunting expedition between 1837 and 1838, he proposed that the republic's capital then located in Houston, Texas, be relocated to the central Austin area situated on the north bank of the Colorado River near the present-day Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge.

Cabot was often overshadowed in northern Lonoke County by the much larger city of Austin ( originally named Oakland ), which was briefly considered for the state capital.

For example, when the legislature of the Republic of Texas decided in 1839 to move the capital to the new site along the Colorado River, the functioning of the government required the rapid population of the town, which was named Austin.

Founded in 1824, as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding spot of the Texas Rangers.

It is east of Austin, the state capital of Texas.

Dalhart is located closer to six other state capitals than to Texas ' capital of Austin.

Washington, D. C .; Jackson, Mississippi ; Columbus, Ohio ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Raleigh, North Carolina ; Columbia, South Carolina ; Madison, Wisconsin ; Salt Lake City, Utah ; Tallahassee, Florida ; and Austin, Texas are unusual, having been carved out of the wilderness to serve as capital cities.

However, women in Texas appearing topless in public can be charged under public nuisance laws, with the exception of Austin, the state capital, where some women sunbathe topless in Zilker Park, at various festivals, and at Hippie Hollow.

In February 2010, Magnum announced that Michael Dell's venture capital firm MSD Capital, L. P. had acquired a collection of nearly 200, 000 original press prints of images taken by Magnum photographers ( including, among other photographs, Afghan Girl ) and had formed partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin to preserve, catalog, and make available to the general public.

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Alexandria () is the capital city of the Teleorman County, Romania.

Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona.

* Clark County, Indiana, Prosecutor's Page on capital punishment

It is the capital of Elbląg County and has been assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999.

" County town " is the current or former administrative capital of the county.

It has been the capital of Kołobrzeg County in West Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, and previously was in Koszalin Voivodship ( 1950 – 1998 ).

Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County.

Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

Vilnius (; see also other names ) is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 554, 060 ( 838, 852 together with Vilnius County ) as of 2011.

It is also the capital of Vilnius County.

Wernigerode was the capital of the medieval County of Wernigerode and Stolberg-Wernigerode.

* March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city.

* Tabas, the capital of Tabas County, an ancient city in central Iran

Oldenburg became the capital of the County of Oldenburg ( later of the Duchy, Grand Duchy, and Free State ), a small state in the shadow of the much more powerful Hanseatic city of Bremen.

Augusta is the capital of the US state of Maine, county seat of Kennebec County, and center of population for Maine.

The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.

It is the historical capital city of the County of Nice ( Comté de Nice ).

Salem () is the capital of the U. S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County.

Between 1694 and 1695, the capital of Maryland was moved from St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County to Annapolis in Anne Arundel County.

Havre de Grace, an incorporated city in Harford County, was once under consideration to be the capital of the United States rather than Washington, D. C ..

Montgomery () is the capital of the U. S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County.