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Tuscaloosa

Admitted to Union: December 14, 1819
Capital: Montgomery
Nickname: Cotton State, Heart of Dixie
Motto: Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere, translated as "We Dare Maintain Our Rights."
Total Area: 52,423 square miles
Total Land Area: 50,750 square miles
Total Water Area: 1,673 square miles
Length: 330 miles
Width: 190 miles
Highest Point: 2,405 feet, Cheaha Mountain
Lowest Point: Sea level
Highest Temp: 112 degrees, Sept. 5, 1925 at Centerville
Lowest Temp: -27 degrees, Jan. 30, 1966 at New Market
Highest Monthly Avg Temp: 91.5 degrees
Lowest Monthly Avg Temp: 31 degrees
Population: (U.S. Census, April, 2000) 4,447,100

HISTORY
Among Native American people once living in present Alabama were Alabama (Alibamu), Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, and Mobile.

The French established the first European settlement in the state with the establishment of Mobile in 1701. Southern Alabama was French from 1701-1763, part of British West Florida from 1763-1780, and part of Spanish West Florida from 1780-1814. Northern and central Alabama was part of British Georgia from 1763-1783 and part of the American Mississipi territory thereafter. Its statehood delayed by the lack of a coastline (rectified when Andrew Jackson captured Spanish Mobile in 1814), Alabama became the 22nd state in 1819.

The state of Alabama seceded from the Union and became a Confederate state on January 11, 1861. While not many battles were fought in the state, it contributed about 120,000 soldiers to the Civil War. After the war a provisional government was set up in 1865 and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June 1868.