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Carolana Ascriptella
The early province of Carolana was the land forming the southern English colonies, spanning from 31° to 36° north latitude. In 1629, King Charles I of England granted the territory to his attorney general Sir Robert Heath. The original charter claimed the land from Albemarle Sound in present-day North Carolina, to the St. Johns River in the south, just miles below the current Florida-Georgia state line. The region as a whole comprised the modern-day states of Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and North and South Carolina. Charles I named the colony for himself, the name Carolana being derived from Carolus, the Latin form of Charles. Early History The land of Carolana was granted to attorney general Sir Robert Heath by King Charles I in 1629. Then in 1698, Daniel Coxe acquired the title from Heath; under it he claimed the region in the rear of the Carolina settlements and including the lower Mississippi Valley. There are only two references to Carolana found on modern-da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Map Of Carolana And Of The River Meschacebe &c (NYPL B14917380-434393)
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
