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Ouseburn River in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (River River River – from Brythonic usa meaning water, river or stream and bourne also meaning stream in Anglo-Saxon). Murderkill River, Delaware, US, (Mother River River-Dutch) Ohio River, eastern US (Great River River – Iroquoian) Ow River, County Wicklow, Ireland (from Irish abha, "river")
Word(s) in original language Meaning and notes American Samoa: 1911 [111] [note 1] (July 17) English and Samoan: American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of ...
Guyandotte River (a river in southern West Virginia, running from Wyoming County near Beckley, to the Ohio River near Huntington. Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot .)
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.
The Cherokee first appeared to use the word kusa to mean the Muskogee Creek people of the Upper Towns, who were competitors and enemies. According to James Mooney, they called the Muskogee Creek "Ani'-Ku'sa or Ani'-Gu'sa, from Kusa, their principal town". [7] English speakers adopted "Coosa" as a frontier English version of the early Cherokee word.
Georgia: The Chattooga River, one of two Georgia rivers bearing that name Chautauqua County: Kansas: Chautauqua County, New York: Chautauqua County: New York: A Seneca word meaning "where the fish was taken out" Chaves County: New Mexico: José Francisco Chaves, a 19th-century New Mexico political and military figure Cheatham County: Tennessee
The site is a 5 acres (0.020 km 2) village located on the eastern bank of the Coosa River at Foster Bend and dating from the mid-sixteenth century.The village is basically square in layout (149 metres (489 ft) in length on each side) and surrounded by a ditch and palisade on three sides and the Coosa River to the north. [1]
Sope Creek is an 11.6-mile-long (18.7 km) [1] stream located in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is a significant tributary of the Chattahoochee River. [2] It was known as Soap Creek during the 19th century. A section of Sope Creek runs through the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.