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Wiregrass ecosystem on the Gulf Coast Map showing southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.. The Wiregrass region, also known as the Wiregrass plains or Wiregrass country, is an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
Bashi – from the Choctaw phrase bachaya, meaning "line" or "row". Bogue Chitto – from the Choctaw phrase book chito, meaning "big creek". [17] Boligee – from the Choctaw phrase boolitusha, meaning "to strike and cut into pieces". [18] Cahaba – from the Choctaw phrase oka-uba, meaning "water from above". [19] Shared with the Cahaba River.
Florida's Forgotten Coast. The Forgotten Coast is a trademarked term coined in the early 1990s [6] used to refer to the coastal portion of the Florida panhandle extending from Mexico Beach or southeastern Bay County on the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks on Apalachee Bay.
A panhandle is a geographic term for an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity. The term comes from the shape of the handle attached to a pan (See: Frying pan or Saucepan ). Panhandle may also refer to:
The city is the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of the Florida Panhandle. Since approximately one-fourth of the U.S. peanut crop is produced nearby, much of it processed in the city, Dothan is known as "The Peanut Capital of the World".
The Pensacola were a Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and southwestern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century. They spoke a Muskogean language. [citation needed] They are the source of the name of Pensacola Bay and the city of Pensacola ...
City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [ 2 ] are also believed to have economic value. [ 1 ]
The term "panhandle" derives from the analogous part of a cooking pan, and its use is generally confined to North America. The salient shape can be the result of arbitrarily drawn international or subnational boundaries, though the location of administrative borders can also take into account other considerations such as economic ties or ...