Chota (also spelled Chote, Echota, Itsati, and other similar variations) is a historic Overhill Cherokee town site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the...
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up chota in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chota may refer to: Chota (Cherokee town), which once existed in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, United...
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Tanasi (category Geography of Monroe County, Tennessee)
Province, which spans much of the upper Tennessee Valley. The Appalachian Range proper rises a few miles south of the Chota-Tanasi site. Tanasi first appears...
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Oconostota (category People from Chota (Cherokee town))
chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. He served...
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several towns along the Little Tennessee. They included Tanasi, the name source for the state of Tennessee, Chilowhee, and Chota, the "mother town" of the...
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Little Tennessee and Tellico rivers throughout present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. These included Chota, Tanasi (the name source of "Tennessee"), and...
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Hanging Maw (category People from Chota (Cherokee town))
present-day southeastern Tennessee. He became chief following the death of Old Tassel, and the abandonment of the traditional capital at Chota after raids by European...
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Overhill Cherokee (category Monroe County, Tennessee)
13374 Chota (Itsa'sa) – located in present-day Monroe County, along the Little Tennessee River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of modern-day Vonore. Chota was...
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Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is located along State Route 139 and State Route 66, and just south of I-40 and Knoxville, Tennessee. The elevation...
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Nancy Ward (category People from Chota (Cherokee town))
Cherokee chief-city, Chota (or "town of refuge"). Today, that area is within Monroe County, on the southeastern border of Tennessee. Her mother, a sister...
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