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| AL |
abbreviation of "Alabama," a southeastern U.S. state located between Georgia and Mississippi. |
| Alabama |
a southeastern U.S. state located between Georgia and Mississippi. (abbr.: AL) |
| Appalachia |
a region in the United States extending from southwestern Pennsylvania to northwestern Georgia and including the southern Appalachian Mountains. |
| Armenia |
a Near Eastern country between Georgia and Turkey; formerly a republic of the Soviet Union. [1/2 definitions] |
| Atlanta |
the capital of the U.S. state of Georgia. |
| Creek |
a member of the strong confederacy of Indian tribes formed from groups previously in Alabama and Georgia, and now mostly in Oklahoma. [1/2 definitions] |
| Deep South |
the southeastern U.S. region, esp. Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, considered most typically Southern. |
| GA |
abbreviation of "Georgia," a southeastern U.S. state on the Atlantic coast between South Carolina and Florida. |
| Georgian |
of or pertaining to the state of Georgia or its people, culture, or the like. [5/6 definitions] |
| Gullah |
any of a group of former slaves and their descendants living on the Sea Islands of Georgia or in nearby coastal areas. [1/2 definitions] |
| Jimmy Carter |
U.S. statesman, the 39th U.S. President (1977-1981) and 83rd Governor of Georgia (1971-1975); born James Earl Carter, Jr. (b.1924). |
| John Lewis |
American civil rights activist and U.S. Congress member from Georgia, who led, among other marches and demonstrations, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which galvanized the nation and quickened the passage of the Voting Rights Act (b. 1940--d. 2020). |
| Ku Klux Klan |
a secret society founded in Georgia in 1915 that was inspired by the earlier Ku Klux Klan and uses terrorist tactics to achieve segregation of blacks and to further the cause of white supremacy. [1/2 definitions] |
| SC |
abbreviation of "South Carolina," a southeastern U.S. state on the Atlantic coast, between North Carolina and Georgia. |
| South Carolina |
a southeastern U.S. state on the Atlantic coast, between North Carolina and Georgia. (abbr.: SC) |
| Tbilisi |
the capital of European Georgia. |
| water rat |
any of various semiaquatic rodents of Australia, Florida, and southern Georgia, that resemble the muskrat. [1/2 definitions] |
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