Batı Virginia

Başlığın diğer anlamları için West Virginia (anlam ayrımı) sayfasına bakınız.

Batı Virginia Eyâleti

West Virginia'nın Bayrağı West Virginia'nın Mührü
ABD'nin eyaletleri
Başkent	Charleston
En büyük kent	Charleston
Vali	Joe Manchin (D)
Senatörler	Robert Byrd (D) Jay Rockefeller (D)
Yüzölçümü
-Toplam Yüzölçümü	62.809 km²
- Kara	62.436 km²
- Su	376 km² (0,6%)
Nüfus (2000)
- Toplam Nüfus	1.808.344 (37'nci)
- Nüfus yoğunluğu	29,0 /km² (27'nci)
Eyalet olarak kabul edildiği
- Tarih	20 Haziran 1863
- Sıra	35'inci
Koordinatlar
Enlem	37°10'K ile 40°40'K arası
Boylam	77°40'B ile 82°40'B arası
Genişlik	210 km
Uzunluk	385 km
Saat dilimi	Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Rakım
- En yüksek nokta	1.482 m
- Ortalama Yükseklik	455 m
- En alçak nokta	73 m
Kısaltmalar
- ABD posta kısaltması	WV
- ISO 3166-2	US-WV
Web sayfası	www.wv.gov

Batı Virginia, ABD'nin eyâletlerinden birisidir. Güneydoğuda Virginia'yla, güneybatıda Kentucky'yle, kuzeybatıda Ohio'yla ve kuzeydoğuda ise Pennsylvania ve Maryland ile sınırdır. Başkenti ve en büyük şehri Charleston'dur.

Konu hakkındaki yayımlar

• Bu maddenin bazı bölümleri, şu anda kamu malı olan "Encyclopædia Britannica'nın on birinci baskısından" çevrilmiştir.
• Charles H. Ambler, A History of Education in West Virginia From Early Colonial Times to 1949 (1951)
• Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers. West Virginia, the Mountain State (1958)
• Jane S. Becker, Inventing Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930–1940 1998.
• Richard A. Brisbin, et al. West Virginia Politics and Government (1996)
• James Morton Callahan, History of West Virginia (1923) 3 vol
• John C. Campbell, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland (1921)reissued 1969.
• Richard Orr Curry, A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and Copperhead Movement in West Virginia (1964)
• Donald Edward Davis. Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians 2000.
• Ronald D, Eller. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 1982.
• Carl E. Feather, Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940–1965. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.
• Thomas R. Ford ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1967.
• Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1922. Reprinted as Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life among the Mountaineers. With an Introduction by George Ellison. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
• Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
• Otis K. Rice, The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730–1830 (1970),
• Otis K. Rice and Stephen W. Brown, West Virginia: A History, 2d ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993), standard
• Curtis Seltzer, Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985), conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s.
• Joe William Trotter Jr., Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (1990)
• John Alexander Williams, West Virginia: A History for Beginners. 2nd ed. Charleston, W.Va.: Appalachian Editions, 1997.
• John Alexander Williams. West Virginia: A Bicentennial History (1976)
• John Alexander Williams. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry 1976.
• John Alexander Williams. Appalachia: A History (2002)

Primary sources

• Elizabeth Cometti, and Festus P. Summers. The Thirty-fifth State: A Documentary History of West Virginia. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966.

Koordinatlar: 39°00′K 80°30′B / 39°N 80.5°W