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ID: 7002659
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Record Type: administrative |
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Alabama (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 33.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 087 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -87.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area has been occupied for over 10,000 years; inhabited by Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw & other tribes when Europeans arrived in 18th cen.; settlers took over area from Amerindians after War of 1812; was Confederate state in Civil War. |
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| Alabama (preferred,C,V)
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............ | based on name of Amerindian tribe that was a division of the Creek Indians |
| AL (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since December 14, 1819 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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