Georgia History

  • Jan 1, 1539

    Spain

    Spain
    Spain, on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, is really 17 autonomous regions, each with its own geography and culture. The capital, Madrid, is home to the Royal Palace and singular Prado museum, housing works by European masters, and Segovia to the north has a fairy-tale medieval castle and Roman aqueduct.
  • Jan 1, 1562

    France

    France
    France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval and port cities, tranquil villages, mountains and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is known worldwide for its couture fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower.
  • Spanish misssions

    Spanish misssions
    The Spanish missions in the Americas were Christian missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 15th to 19th centuries in an area extending from Mexico and the southwestern portions of what today are the United States, southwards as far as Argentina and Chile.
  • colony of georgia

    colony of georgia
    Georgia Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographic areas consisting of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. The Georgia Colony was classified as one of the Southern Colonies.
  • James oglethorpe& trustees

    James oglethorpe& trustees
    James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World.
  • Tomochichi

    Tomochichi
    Tomochichi was a seventeenth-century Creek leader and the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia. He gave his land to James Oglethorpe to build the city of Savannah.
  • Mary Musgrove

    Mary Musgrove
    Mary Musgrove was a colonial American interpreter and negotiator of mixed Yamacraw and English ancestry.
  • highland scots

    highland scots
    Highlander from the late sixteenth century onwards and had probably been worn for quite some time before that over the saffron tunic - the main article of clothing worn by the Irish.
  • Salzburgers

    Salzburgers
    The Georgia Salzburgers, a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County.Nov 3, 2006
  • City of savannah

    City of savannah
    Savannah, a coastal Georgia city, is separated from South Carolina by the Savannah River. It’s known for its manicured parks, horse-drawn carriages and ornate antebellum architecture. Its cobblestoned historic district is filled with squares and parks like Forsyth Park, shaded by magnolia blossoms and oak trees covered with Spanish moss.
  • Engaland

    Engaland
    birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles – is a country in the British Isles bordering Scotland and Wales. The capital, London, on the River Thames, is home of Parliament and the 11th-century Tower of London, but is also a multicultural, 21st-century hub for the arts and business in "The City."
  • Mississippians

    Mississippians
    in the mid eastern and southeatsen United atates which lasted 800-1600 saw the development of some of the most complex societies that ever exsited in North America
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