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Otherwise the District of Columbia currently has no counties or county equivalents. The former counties of the District of Columbia are: Alexandria County, D.C. (1791–1846) retroceded to Virginia becoming Alexandria County, Virginia. Washington County, D.C. Abolished in 1871 and consolidated with the District of Columbia. Under the current ...
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
The list of bonded guano island claims mentions "Islands in Caribbean Sea not named" bonded on this date, but it is unknown to what this is referring. [4] no change to map: December 11, 1868 Serrana Bank was claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Colombia has claimed it throughout its history. Caribbean Sea: March 3, 1869
Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the retrocession The United States Capitol in 1846, prior to the addition of the current rotunda Almost immediately after the "Federal City" was laid out north of the Potomac River , some residents south of the Potomac River in Alexandria County, D.C., began petitioning to be returned to ...
To simplify maintaining the table, numbers of divisions are only specified where a country has around thirty or fewer instances; for example, as of 2010, the twelve qarqe (counties) of Albania. For numbers greater than thirty, the number rounded down to the nearest ten (or, in the case of thousands, the nearest hundred) is given, suffixed by a ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Improved economic conditions and easing of religious persecution in Europe made it more difficult to recruit labor to the colonies, and many colonies became increasingly reliant on slave labor, particularly in the South. The population of slaves in America grew dramatically between 1680 and 1750, and the growth was driven by a mixture of forced ...
The official name of the country at the time was the Republic of Colombia. [60] Historians adopted the term "Gran Colombia" to distinguish this republic from the present-day Republic of Colombia, which began using the same name in 1863. [61] Map showing results of the Adams-Onís Treaty.