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Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States" The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. [1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now ...
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Treaty 6 Flag, which has been flown in cities throughout the treaty territory since 2012, including Edmonton, Saskatoon, Morinville, and Lloydminster. Since Treaty 6 has been signed, there have been many claims over miscommunication of the treaty terms from the Indigenous and the Crown's perspective.
The Georgia–Russia border is the state border between Georgia and Russia. It is de jure 894 km (556 mi) in length and runs from the Black Sea coast in the west and then along the Greater Caucasus Mountains to the tripoint with Azerbaijan in the east, thus closely following the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia . [ 1 ]
The Treaty of Paris (1783) that ended the American Revolution established American sovereignty over the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi; the jobs of determining how that land should be governed, and how the conflicting claims to it by several of the states should be resolved, were one of the first major tasks facing the new nation.
The territory of the Democratic Republic of Georgia included some territories that today belong to other countries. It was circa 107,600 km 2, compared to 69,700 km 2 in modern Georgia. The Soviet occupation of the DRG led to significant territorial rearrangements by which Georgia lost almost a third of its territory.
The U.S. Virgin Islands were organized into a civil territory. [405] no change to map: August 6, 1936 Canton Island, Enderbury Island, and McKean Island were claimed by the United Kingdom. [270] Pacific Ocean: April 6, 1939 The condominium of the Canton and Enderbury Islands was established with the United Kingdom. [406] Pacific Ocean: July 27 ...
The Compact of 1802, formally Articles of Agreement and Cession, was a compact between the United States and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24, 1802. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its central and western lands (the Yazoo lands, now Alabama and Mississippi, respectively), and promised that the U.S. government would extinguish American Indian ...