North Carolina is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. Raleigh is the state’s capital and Charlotte is its largest city. North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and is one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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North Carolina is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. Raleigh is the state’s capital and Charlotte is its largest city. North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and is one of the original Thirteen Colonies. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world’s first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the run-up to the American Civil War, North Carolina declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the last of eleven states to join the Confederate States. After the war, the state was restored to the Union in June 25, 1868. The state was inhabited for at least ten thousand years by succeeding prehistoric indigenous cultures. Its largest city was Cahokia, located in present-day Illinois near the Mississippi River. In 1567, Captain Juan Pardo led an expedition to claim the area for the Spanish colony. He built Fort San Joara, which he renamed Cuenca. He returned in 1540 and built a garrison and five other bases for a different route. He died in 1580. In 1616, Spanish explorers, Sioura, Waccamaw, and Catawba traveled inland in the 16th century to meet the present- day people at Morganton de Soto, near the present day city of Morganton.
They met with a regional chief called Joara de Hernando, who attested to his meeting with them on 1540-day Morganton Morganton Soto. In 1729, King Charles I of England formed the English colony, Carolus being Latin for \”Charles\”. North Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England who first formed theEnglish colony and is the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The Raleigh metropolitan area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state, with an estimated population of 1,362,540 in 2018, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone; however, the western, mountainous part of North Carolina has a subtropicals highland climate. The Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks in the 500–700 years preceding European contact. The Native polities of the Mississipian culture fell apart and reformed as new groups, such as the Catwba, due to a series of destabilizing events known as the \”Mississippian shatter zone\” as described by anthropologist Robbie Ethridge. The region was an area of great instability, in what is now the American South, caused by the instability of Mississippist chiefdoms.
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