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ID: 7005802
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Record Type: administrative |
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Nova Scotia (province) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 45 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 063 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -63.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Settled originally by Micmacs; first visited by Norse Vikings around 1000 BCE; claimed for England by John Cabot late 15th cen.; settlers from France arrived 1605; Scottish colonists came after 1621; Treaty of Utrecht gave area to England 1713; French Acadians were deported to Louisiana by British. |
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| Nova Scotia (preferred,C,V,English,U,N)
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| Nova Scotia (Latin-P,U,N)
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| Nova Scotia, Province of (C,V)
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| Province de Nouvelle-Écosse (C,V,French,U,N)
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| Nouvelle Écosse (C,V,French-P,U,N)
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| Neuschottland (C,O,German-P,U,N)
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| Nueva Escocia (C,O,Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Acadia (H,V)
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............ | Micmac name used by French settlers in 17th cen.; name referred to area with various borders 16th-17th cen. |
| Acadie (H,V)
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| NS (C,V)
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| province (preferred, C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| peninsula (C) |
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