Batı Virginia
Batı Virginia, ABD'nin eyâletlerinden birisidir. Güneydoğuda Virginia'yla, güneybatıda Kentucky'yle, kuzeybatıda Ohio'yla ve kuzeydoğuda ise Pensilvanya ve Maryland ile sınırdır. Başkenti ve en büyük şehri Charleston'dur.
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Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin eyaletleri | |||||
Başkent | Charleston | ||||
En büyük kent | Charleston | ||||
Vali | Joe Manchin (D) | ||||
Senatörler | Robert Byrd (D)
Jay Rockefeller (D) | ||||
Alan | |||||
-Toplam Alan | 62.809 km² | ||||
- Kara | 62.436 km² | ||||
- Su | 376 km² (0,6%) | ||||
Nüfus (2000) | |||||
- Toplam Nüfus | 1.808.344 (37'nci) | ||||
- Nüfus yoğunluğu | 29,0 /km² (27'nci) | ||||
Eyalet olarak kabul edildiği | |||||
- Tarih | 20 Haziran 1863 | ||||
- Sıra | 35'inci | ||||
Koordinatlar | |||||
Enlem | 37°10'K ile 40°40'K arası | ||||
Boylam | 77°40'B ile 82°40'B arası | ||||
Genişlik | 210 km | ||||
Uzunluk | 385 km | ||||
Zaman dilimi | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | ||||
Rakım | |||||
- En yüksek nokta | 1.482 m | ||||
- Ortalama Yükseklik | 455 m | ||||
- En alçak nokta | 73 m | ||||
Kısaltmalar | |||||
- ABD posta kısaltması | WV | ||||
- ISO 3166-2 | US-WV | ||||
Web sayfası | www.wv.gov |
Konu hakkındaki yayımlar
- Bu maddenin bazı bölümleri, şu anda kamu malı olan "Encyclopædia Britannica'nın on birinci baskısından" çevrilmiştir.
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- Richard A. Brisbin, et al. West Virginia Politics and Government (1996)
- James Morton Callahan, History of West Virginia (1923) 3 vol
- John C. Campbell, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland (1921)reissued 1969.
- Richard Orr Curry, A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and Copperhead Movement in West Virginia (1964)
- Donald Edward Davis. Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians 2000.
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- Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1922. Reprinted as Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life among the Mountaineers. With an Introduction by George Ellison. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
- Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
- Otis K. Rice, The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730–1830 (1970),
- Otis K. Rice and Stephen W. Brown, West Virginia: A History, 2d ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993), standard
- Curtis Seltzer, Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985), conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s.
- Joe William Trotter Jr., Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (1990)
- John Alexander Williams, West Virginia: A History for Beginners. 2nd ed. Charleston, W.Va.: Appalachian Editions, 1997.
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- John Alexander Williams. Appalachia: A History (2002)
Primary sources
- Elizabeth Cometti, and Festus P. Summers. The Thirty-fifth State: A Documentary History of West Virginia. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966.
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