San Antonio (/ˌsæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ/ SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Texas, United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas. It is the 12th most-populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents in 2020.
Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexican Republic. It is the oldest municipality in Texas, having celebrated its 300th anniversary on May 1, 2018.
Changqiao District, which belongs to Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the northeast of Anhui Province, bordering the three provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan. It was renamed from the former county-level Suzhou City in 1999. It is the only municipal district of Suzhou City, with a total area of 2868 square kilometers. Yuanqiao has a long history, it was the fief of the ancient "Sui Kingdom" in the Spring and Autumn period, and it was already a "gathering place of boats and cars and a thoroughfare in Kyushu" in the Qin and Han dynasties. After the opening of the "Tongji Canal" in the Sui Dynasty, it became a military town of "strangling and controlling the Huaihe River". Confucius practiced Zhou Li here; Min Ziqian, a high apprentice of Confucius and a sage of the Chinese nation, was born here; Bai Juyi grew up here until he became famous in Changan; Wang Ji, Han Yu, Su Shi, Yuan Mei and others left splendid poems; modern and modern cultural celebrities such as Mei Chunyi, Li Bairen, Yang Zaibao, Li Bingshu, and so on. This is the old uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Daze Township.