3.2% of Alabama’s area is water.

Organized insurgent groups in Alabama included The Ku Klux Klan, the Pale Faces, Knights of the White Camellia, Red Shirts, and the White League.

Alabama has very hot summers with high temperatures averaging over 90 °F (32 °C) in some parts of the state and mild winters.

On January 30, 1846, the Alabama legislature announced it had voted to move the capital city from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery. The first legislative session in the new capital met in December 1847.

While part of the same large language family, the Muskogean-speaking tribes in Alabama developed distinct cultures and languages.

The French controlled Alabama from 1702 to 1763 as part of La Louisiane. After the French lost to the British in the Seven Years’ War, it became part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1783. Following the American ...Read more

Invertebrates in Alabama include 97 crayfish species and 383 mollusk species.

St. Stephens, now abandoned, served as the territorial capital from 1817 to 1819.

American football, particularly at the college level, plays a major part in Alabama’s culture.

The first European settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at Old Mobile in 1702. The city was moved to the current site of Mobile in 1711.