Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee...the District of Columbia (N and NE). Facts...extends south to the North Carolina line...Virginians work in government, especially in the District of Columbia or in nearby "Beltway...Langley. Government, Politics, and Higher Education...included in its lands the whole vast area of North America not held by the...to live off the land. By 1608, despite...of the French and Indian Wars , in which...governor. Although the British had burned Norfolk...Virginia yielded its claim to this area to...primogeniture from land tenure, liberalized the...