jamestown

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The capital of the island Saint Helena

a town in Virginia which was the first town built by English people who went to live in North America. It was established in 1607, and is a popular place for tourists to visit. Site of the first permanent British settlement in North America. It was founded in May 1607, on the Jamestown Island peninsula in Virginia's James River. Named after King James I, it initiated the cultivation of tobacco and established the continent's first representative government (1619). When Williamsburg replaced it as the capital of Virginia in 1699, it fell into decline. By the mid-19th century, erosion had transformed the peninsula into an island. In 1936 it was incorporated into the Colonial National Historical Park

{i} first successful English settlement in North America (established in Virginia in 1607); name of a number of cities in the U.S

a former village on the James River in Virginia north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

Связанные Термины

jamestown weed

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia

Расстановка переносов

James·town

Турецкое произношение

ceymztaun

Произношение

/ˈʤāmzˌtoun/ /ˈʤeɪmzˌtaʊn/