Batı Virginia

Batı Virginia
Batı Virginia bayrağı
Bayrak
Batı Virginia mührü
Mühür
ÜlkeAmerika Birleşik Devletleri Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
BaşkentCharleston
İdare
 • ValiJim Justice (R)
 • Vali vekiliCraig Blair (R)
 • Üst meclisBatı Virginia Senatosu
 • Alt meclisBatı Virginia Temsilciler Meclisi
 • SenatörlerJoe Manchin (R)
Shelley Moore Capito (R)
Yüzölçümü
 • Toplam62,755 km²
 • Kara
62,361 km² (24,077 mil²)
 • Su
394 km² (152 mil²)
Rakım461 m
En yüksek nokta1,482 m (4,862 ft)
En alçak nokta73 m (239 ft)
Nüfus
 (2020)[1]
 • Toplam1.795,045
 • Yoğunluk29,8/km²
Zaman dilimiUTC-05.00
 • Yaz (YSU)UTC-04.00
ISO 3166 koduUS-WV
Resmî site
wv.gov

Batı Virginia, ABD'nin eyaletlerinden 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.

Konu hakkındaki yayımlar

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  • Kamu malı Bu madde artık kamu malı olan bir yayından alınan metni içeriyor: Chisholm, Hugh, (Ed.) (1911). "madde adı gerekli". Encyclopædia Britannica (11. bas.). Cambridge University Press. 
  • Charles H. Ambler, A History of Education in West Virginia From Early Colonial Times to 1949 (1951)
  • Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers. West Virginia, the Mountain State (1958)
  • Jane S. Becker, Inventing Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930–1940 1998.
  • 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.
  • Ronald D, Eller. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 1982.
  • Carl E. Feather, Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940–1965. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.
  • Thomas R. Ford ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1967.
  • 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.
  • John Alexander Williams. West Virginia: A Bicentennial History (1976)
  • John Alexander Williams. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry 1976.
  • 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.


  1. ^ Bureau, US Census (26 Nisan 2021). "2020 Census Apportionment Results". The United States Census Bureau. 26 Nisan 2021 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 27 Nisan 2021.