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Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah. Louisiana[pronunciation 1] (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ⓘ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) [b] is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and ...
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
District of Columbia. SSBN-826 under construction. SSN-771, CL-56, AG-9, & C-12 were named after American cities also named Columbia. Guam. PG-43, CB-2, LPH-9, T-HST-1. Northern Mariana Islands. USS Saipan (CVL-48) and (LHA-2), both named for the Battle of Saipan, which took place on the island of Saipan, the largest and most populous island ...
After the French form of the Atakapa name Katkōsh Yōk, meaning 'Crying Eagle', an Atakapa Native American leader 203,761: 1,094 sq mi (2,833 km 2) Caldwell Parish: 021: Columbia: 1838: from part of Catahoula Parish and Ouachita Parish. Named for the Caldwell family, which owned a large plantation and remains politically active in the state ...
Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land") Timbalier Island (" timpani player") Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant. Vacherie ("Cowshed") Verdun. Versailles. Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [a] or ...