Perhaps Alabama can hardly be called "popular" staff outside the United States - there is no world-famous attractions such as the Slavs Hollywood California or add enormous fame Nevada Las Vegas casinos. I'm sure many will not be called the most famous and largest Alabama cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville and Mobil; in situations such as the "Golden State", this task would be much easier.

 

With a population of less than five million people Alabama is not one of 'record-setting state, "but imagine the United States without Sweet Home Alabama is simply impossible.

With almost rectangular in shape, in the south of the state dramatically narrows to accommodate (with a small margin around the earth) Mobile Bay (Mobile Bay), which is located on the shore of "sea gate of Alabama" - the city of Mobile. Was named in honor of an Indian tribe Mauvilla, the port city is now one of the largest ports of the country.

 

State Alabama Europeans appeared in the Bay of Mobile, were Spaniards - including, under the leadership of Alonso Alvarez de Pineda in 1519 and led by Hernando de Soto, after two decades. However, the first permanent European settlement was established here by the French in 1702, and it is in Mobile - true, then it was called Fort Louis de la Mobile. This city may not be as well-known in the world like Las Vegas or New York, is notable for other things - for example, it was here in 1704 was the country's first Mardi Gras celebration.

 

By the Treaty of Paris of 1763 Alabama land passed Britain, which soon gave way to the right of them in Spain and the United States; However, the actual possessors of lands only Spaniards. Finally the property of the state of Alabama was only in 1813, when the city was occupied by American troops in 1812 during the Anglo-American war.

 

However, "getting rid" of the European encroachments, American settlers had to face fierce resistance from the indigenous inhabitants of this land; Indians were not disposed to give their land white. This part of the history of Alabama (as well as a large part of the country and the time of development of new lands) painted the blood of thousands of Indians who ruthlessly exterminated well-armed troops. In the end, the Indian leaders signed the necessary papers, giving a significant part of their lands to settlers.

 

December 14, 1819 Alabama became the 22nd state of the Union, so that after four decades out of it; during the Civil War, Alabama was among the states seceded from the Union. Approximately half of the residents of the state (which is about one hundred thousand people) at the time were slaves, although the slaveholder was only every third resident of Alabama. By the way, in Montgomery Alabama and rebellious Confederation was founded.

 

Despite the fact that for a long time, Alabama was not the place for major military operations and large-scale military operations in the state occurred only on the last years of opposition, much of alabamtsev and did not come home from the fields of battle - more than twenty-five thousand people.

 

Agriculture was the foundation of the state's economy until the early twentieth century; at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Alabama also began to actively develop the metallurgical industry.

 

Today, along with agriculture (in which cotton was still takes a significant portion of) Alabama is proud of its success in breeding poultry, egg production, meat of cattle and pigs; State industry is represented by plants producing cars, military equipment, aircraft engines. It is also a significant contribution to the state of the economy make extractive industry (oil, natural gas, coal) and production of seafood.