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The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
A map of the original Ohio Country. In the 17th century, the French were the first modern Europeans to explore what became known as Ohio Country. [13] In 1663, it became part of New France, a royal province of French Empire, and northeastern Ohio was further explored by Robert La Salle in 1669. [14]
The inhabitants of Crete were named Minoans by Arthur Evans, after the legendary king. [ citation needed ] It seems that the Minoans travelled from Crete down to Egypt, Syria and Mari of Euphrates , to Asia Minor ( Anatolia ) and the Black Sea through the Aegean islands, [ 5 ] and to the west up to Lipari ( Aeolian islands ) to the north of ...
Texas's flag is similar to the flag of Chile, first used in 1817. However, the Chilean flag has a blue canton with a white star rather than the entire left side being blue, with the red bottom stripe beginning below the canton. One author suggests that both the Chilean flag and the Texas flag were designed to look like the flag of the United ...
Gov. Mike DeWine ordered Ohio burgees and American flags to fly at half-staff at the Ohio Statehouse and in Stark County to honor longtime lawmaker J. Kirk Schuring, who died at age 72.
The Cyclades were in the Minoan cultural orbit and, closer to Crete, the islands of Karpathos, Saria and Kasos also contained middle-Bronze Age (MMI-II) Minoan colonies or settlements of Minoan traders. Most were abandoned in LMI, but Karpathos recovered and continued its Minoan culture until the end of the Bronze Age. [42]
To honor the more than 2,000 lives lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Saturday.
The flags and toilets were his way of protesting the city’s lack of action, Hickey said. He also said he didn’t understand why some people were making such a fuss about the Confederate flag.