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The 16 counties of Forgottonia. Fandon is the white dot. Forgottonia on U.S. map. Forgottonia (/ ˈ f ɔːr ɡ ɒ ˌ t oʊ n i ə /), also spelled Forgotonia, is the name given to a 16-county region in Western Illinois in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA: / aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə n / eye-BEER-ee-ən), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in south-western Europe.Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain [c] and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the ...
The southern part of the region shares much in common with Southern Illinois and northern areas of the Upland South, while the northern part has a more distinctly Midwestern character. West-Central Illinois is also known as Forgottonia. The area is also at the heart of one the most famous rivalries in American sports, the Cardinals–Cubs rivalry.
The area was earlier known as "Illinois Country" (Pays des Illinois) while under French control, first as part of French Canada and then in its southern region as part of French Louisiana. The British gained authority over the region east of the Mississippi River from the French, with the 1763 Treaty of Paris marking the end of the French and ...
Governor of Illinois 1949–1953 (Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, Volume 3) (1973), primary documents. Peck, J. M. A Gazetteer of Illinois (1837), a primary source online; Quaife, Milo Milton ed. Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861: From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush (1944) Sutton, Robert P. ed.
The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.li.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...
The Illinois State Museum sponsored a two-part excavation project at Hubele in 1950; archaeologists dug a pair of test trenches (each measuring 10 by 20 feet (3.0 m × 6.1 m)) in the village area and removed two of the mounds, which were found to have been previously disturbed.
The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of a loosely organized group of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley. Eventually member tribes occupied an area reaching from Lake Michicigao (Michigan) to Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas.