Pennsylvania
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- Names
Pennsylvania
PA
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Occupied mainly by Algonquian, with Iroquoian-speakers in E, when English, Dutch and Swedes settled here 17th cen.; haven for religious dissenters founded by W Penn in 1682; suffered battles in French and Indian wars; was strongly pro-Revolution and pro-Union.
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- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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