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ID: 7007516
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Record Type: administrative |
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Maryland (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 39 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 39.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 076 50 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -76.8333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Occupied by roving hunters by ca. 8000 BC, later was home to agrarian cultures; Algonquian-speakers, at war with Iroquois to N, lived here when Europeans settled in 17th cen.; fought in Revolution; state had split loyalties in Civil War. |
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| Maryland (preferred,C,V)
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............ | named for Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I of England, who made land grant to first Lord Baltimore in 1632 |
| MD (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, C) |
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since April 28, 1788 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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