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Hace 9 horas · Florida shares a land border with only two other states, both along its northern boundary: Georgia (east) and Alabama (west). The nearest foreign territory is the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, some 50 miles (80 km) to the east of the state’s southern tip.
- Cultural Life
Florida - Culture, Nature, History: Florida is well endowed...
- Statehood
Florida - US State, Sunshine State, Beaches: By 1845, when...
- People
Florida - Native Americans, Spanish, Tourists: Native...
- Choctawhatchee River
Choctawhatchee River, river in southeastern Alabama and...
- Bimini
Bimini Islands, string of islands, northwestern Bahamas,...
- Sebring
Sebring, city, seat (1921) of Highlands county,...
- Apalachicola
Apalachicola, city, seat (1832) of Franklin county,...
- Cultural Life
Hace 2 días · The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are a Native American nation which coalesced in northern Florida during the early 1700s, when the territory was still a Spanish colonial ...
- 1816–1858
- United States victory
- Spanish Florida, Florida territory, Florida
Hace 2 días · Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, and St. Augustine was designated one of the two alternating capitals of the Florida Territory, the other being Pensacola, upon ratification of the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1821. The Florida National Guard made the city its headquarters that same year.
Hace 3 días · The territory of La Florida was ceded to the United States by Spain in 1819; it was then known as Florida Territory. Admission to the Union on 3rd March 1845, as the 27th state. Florida State Map. General Map of Florida, United States.
Hace 5 días · Jacksonville, city, seat (1822) of Duval county, northeastern Florida, U.S., the centre of Florida’s “First Coast” region. It lies along the St. Johns River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia border. Jacksonville consolidated (1968) with most of Duval.
Hace 3 días · Apache, an Indigenous North American group which, under such leaders as Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, and Victorio, figured largely in the history of the Southwest during the latter half of the 19th century. The Apache name is probably derived from a Spanish transliteration of ápachu, the term for “enemy” in Zuñi.
