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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, or "Bible Belt", Alabama is a predominantly 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 marches made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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State Route 73 (SR 73), is a 11.219-mile-long (18.055 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 71 in Higdon north to the Tennessee state line, where it becomes Tennessee State Route 377 (SR 377). SR 73 travels through rural areas in eastern Jackson County, serving the community of Bryant. (Full article...)

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A view of three Lightning Route streetcars on a postcard from 1900–1920

The Capital City Street Railway, also known as the Lightning Route, was the first citywide system of streetcars established in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 15, 1886. This early technology was developed by the Belgian-American inventor Charles Joseph Van Depoele. Joseph Arthur Gaboury, a french Canadian from Quebec, was the owner of the horse-drawn system that was converted to electricity. One trolley route ended at the Cloverdale neighborhood. This early public transportation system made Montgomery one of the first cities to "depopulate" its residential areas at the city center through transportation-facilitated suburban development. The system operated for exactly 50 years, until April 15, 1936, when it was retired in a big ceremony and replaced by buses. (Full article...)

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Image 1Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 2Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 3Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 4Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 5The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 6The 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 7Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 8Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 9Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 101823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 11Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 12Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 13Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 14The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 15The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)

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

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Image 17Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 18Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 19The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 20Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 21Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 22Blast 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 23Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 24Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 25The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 26Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 27Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 28Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 29Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 30The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 31Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 32Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 33The 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 34The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 35Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 36Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 371725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 38The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 39Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 40Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 41A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 42The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 43The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 44Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 45Alabama's population density, 2010 (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 47William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 48Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 49Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 50Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 51Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 52Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 53Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 54Dauphin Street in Mobile (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 the Alabama Crimson Tide's loss to the LSU Tigers in their 2019 football game broke a 31-game home winning streak?
... that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
... that Andrew Sorrell, State Auditor of Alabama, initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
... that an Alabama radio station was described by its program director as a "no-format mess"?
... that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting?

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