Editing El Salvador (section)

== Etymology ==

After the [[Spanish conquest of El Salvador|Spanish conquest]], the land was divided into the province of San Salvador, the Spanish version of "Holy Saviour", a biblical title for [[Jesus]]. From 1579 that also included the province of [[San Miguel, El Salvador|San Miguel]] (Saint Michael). San Salvador would become, throughout the colonial era, an {{lang|es|alcaldía mayor}} ('great mayor's office'), [[Intendancy of San Salvador|intendancy]], and finally a province with a provincial council, and the province of Izalco (which would become be called the mayor's office of [[Sonsonate, El Salvador|Sonsonate]]). In 1824 the two jurisdictions were united in the State of Salvador, a part of the [[Federal Republic of Central America]].<ref name="el nombre El Salvador">{{Cite book |url=http://issuu.com/sec-sv/docs/el_nombre_de_el_salvador_fd686d53bef9b0 |author1=Carlos Pérez Pineda |author2=Óscar Meléndez |title=El nombre oficial de la República de El Salvador |edition=1st |publisher=Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos |location=[[San Salvador]] |page=37 |date=9 June 2015 |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406041018/https://issuu.com/sec-sv/docs/el_nombre_de_el_salvador_fd686d53bef9b0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ejercicio gobernar">{{Cite book |last=Herrera Mena |first=Sajid Alfredo |title=El ejercicio de gobernar: Del cabildo borbónico al ayuntamiento liberal. El Salvador colonial, 1750–1821 |trans-title=The exercise of governance: From the Bourbon council to the liberal city council. Colonial El Salvador, 1750–1821 |date=2013 |publisher=[[Jaume I University]] Press |isbn=978-84-15443-13-1}}</ref>

After the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America, the country was referred to as the ''Republic of Salvador'' ({{lang|es|República del Salvador}}), but in 1915, the [[Legislative Assembly of El Salvador|Legislative Assembly]] passed a law which officially stated that the country's name should be rendered as the definite form {{lang|es|El Salvador}} ('The Saviour') — again a reference to Jesus — rather than {{Lang|es|Salvador}}. With another law passed in 1958, the legislature reaffirmed the country's name as {{lang|es|El Salvador}}.<ref>{{Cite book |title=El nombre oficial de la República de El Salvador |trans-title=The official name of the Republic of El Salvador |publisher=[[Government of El Salvador]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-99923-0-274-3 |url=http://www.cultura.gob.sv/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/El-nombre-de-El-Salvador.pdf |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111203357/http://www.cultura.gob.sv/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/El-nombre-de-El-Salvador.pdf |pages=11 & 26–28 }}</ref>