Kennesaw Mountain - battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

Albany - a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans

Atlanta, capital of Georgia - state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

Athens - a university town in northeast Georgia

Augusta - a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments

Macon - a city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta

Oxford - a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner

Savannah - a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river

Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River - a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

Coosa, Coosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River

Flint River, Flint - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

Okefenokee Swamp - a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia

Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River - river that rieses in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River

Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

Asian country, Asian nation - countries occupying the Asian continent

Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

Tbilisi, Tiflis, capital of Georgia - the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river

Abkhazia, Abkhaz - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability

Adzhar, Adzharia - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea

Georgian - a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia