[at-lan-tuh] Pronunciation Key | a city in and the capital of Georgia, in the N part. 425,022. |
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The capital and largest city of Georgia, in the northwest part of the state. It was founded in 1837 at the end of the railroad line as Terminus and renamed Atlanta in 1845. Almost entirely burned on November 15, 1864, before the start of Union general William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea, the city was rapidly rebuilt and became the permanent state capital in 1877. Population: 471,000. At·lan'tan n. |
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| atlanta | |
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| 1. | state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War |
| 2. | a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864 |
Atlanta
Capital of Georgia and largest city in the state.
Note: Atlanta was plundered by the Union army during the Civil War. (See Sherman's march to the sea.)
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Atlanta
At*lan"ta\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
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