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Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/ AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is predominantly a conservative state, and is known for its Southern culture. Within Alabama, American football, particularly at the college level, plays a major part of the state's culture.

Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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Artist's impression of the Canoe Fight, from an 1860 biography of Samuel Dale

The Canoe Fight was a skirmish between Mississippi Territory militiamen led by Captain Samuel Dale and Red Stick warriors that took place on November 12, 1813 as part of the Creek War. The skirmish was fought largely from canoes and was a victory for the militiamen, who only had one member wounded. The victory held little military value in the overall Creek War but its participants gained widespread notoriety for their actions during the fight. The fight has been depicted in multiple illustrations, but only a historical marker currently exists near the site of the fight. (Full article...)

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Downtown Dothan

Dothan (/ˈdoʊθən/ DOH-thən)^{[citation needed]} is a city in and the county seat of Houston County in the U.S. state of Alabama. A slight portion of the city extends into Dale and Henry counties. It had a population of 71,072 at the 2020 census, making it Alabama's eighth-largest city by population and the 5th largest in Alabama by total area. It is near the state's southeastern corner, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Georgia and 16 miles (26 km) north of Florida. It is named after the biblical city where Joseph's brothers threw him into a cistern and sold him into slavery in Egypt.

Dothan is the principal city of the Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Geneva, Henry, and Houston counties; the small portion in Dale County is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area. Together they form the Dothan-Ozark Combined Statistical Area. Coffee County and its Enterprise micropolitan area was originally combined as a statistical area with both Dothan and Ozark as well, but is now split off as its own statistical area by the US Census Bureau. Together they form the Alabama portion of the Wiregrass region, of which Dothan is that portion's largest city. The combined population of the entire Dothan metropolitan area in 2020 was 151,007. The city is the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of the Florida Panhandle. Since approximately one-fourth of the U.S. peanut crop is produced nearby, much of it processed in the city, Dothan is known as "The Peanut Capital of the World". It also hosts the annual National Peanut Festival at the Peanut Festival Fairgrounds. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 2Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 3Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 4Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 5Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 6Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 7Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 8Blast furnaces such as the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Ensley Works made Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from History of Alabama)
Image 9A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 10The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery. It houses the Supreme Court of Alabama, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. (from Alabama)
Image 11Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 12The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 13Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 14Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 15Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 16Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 17Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 18Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 19Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 20William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 21Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 22Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 23The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 241823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 25Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 26The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 27Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 28The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 29Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 301725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 31Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 32Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 33Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 34Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 35Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 36Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 37Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 38Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 39The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 40Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 41Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 42The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 43Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 44The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 45Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 46Harrison Plaza at the University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from Alabama)
Image 47Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 48The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)

Map of counties in Alabama by racial plurality, per the 2020 census

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Image 50Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 51The former Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387 Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 52The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 53Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 54Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)

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... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery?
... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
... that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?
... that Huntsville, Alabama, is nicknamed Rocket City?
... that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama?
... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams?

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