 |
|
|
|
|
|
Research Home
 Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vernacular Display | English Display |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click the  icon to view the hierarchy. |
|
|
Tennessee (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 085 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -85.0000 decimal degrees |
|
Note: Inhabited by Mound Builders; later was home to Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and Creek tribes; visited by Spanish & French 16th-17th cen.; Virginians & North Carolinians settled here 18th cen.; joined Confederacy in 1861, site of bloody battles in Civil War. |
Names: |
|
| Tennessee (preferred,C,V)
|
| TN (C,V,USPS)
|
| Tinnase (H,V)
|
............ | original spelling of name, taken from name of Cherokee town |
|
Hierarchical Position: |
|
|
Place Types: |
|
| state (preferred, B) |
............ |
since June 1, 1796 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
|
|
Related geographic places: |
|
| capital is .... |
Nashville-Davidson .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, North and Central America, United States, Tennessee, Davidson county) [7013959] |
|
Sources and Contributors: |
|
|
