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Indiana (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 40 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 40.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 086 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -86.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Originally inhabited by Mound Builders; when Europeans arrived, Algonquian-speaking Miami Confederation, Potowatomi and Delaware, lived here; claimed by French in the 17th century, by British in 1763, and by the colonists in the Revolutionary War. It was strongly pro-Union in the Civil War. |
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| Indiana (preferred,C,V)
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............ | named by land developers ca. 1765, by adding an "a" to "Indian" to roughly mean "land of the [American] Indians" |
| IN (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, C) |
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since December 11, 1816 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Indianapolis .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Indiana, Marion county) [7012924] |
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