Virginia
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/32815
- Note
- "The area´s history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Virginia´s state nickname, the Old Dominion, is a reference to this status. Slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colony´s early politics and plantation economy. Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution. In the American Civil War, Virginia´s Secession Convention resolved to join the Confederacy, and Virginia´s First Wheeling Convention resolved to remain in the Union; that led to the creation of West Virginia. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, both major national parties are competitive in modern Virginia." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.02.2020)
- Latitude
- 37.5
- Longitude
- -79
- Inhabitants
- 7,642,884
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