1.a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
2.a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
3.a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River
4.the Muskhogean language of the Alabama people
亞拉巴馬州(Alabama)是美國的一個州,位于美國東南部,2000年的人口是4,447,100。亞拉巴馬州名稱來自印第安語,其意義為:“披荊斬棘”I clear the thicket。1699年,亞拉巴馬州是法屬路易斯安那省之一部。1763年割與英國。一八一七年,成為美國領(lǐng)土。1819年12月14日,列為美國第22州。本州州府蒙哥馬利Montgomery,位于本州中南部,人口14萬。大商港木比耳Mobile在木比耳灣頭,人口25萬。港口每年吞吐量達(dá)四千萬噸。大工業(yè)都市伯明罕在本州中北部,人口30萬,附近產(chǎn)鐵、煤與石灰,易于發(fā)展鋼鐵工業(yè)。