Tsenacommacah
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tsenacomoco, Tscenocomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, Attan-Akamik
thumb|300px|John Smith (explorer)|John Smith's map of the [[Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The map, c. 1612, details the location of numerous villages within Tsenacommacah. It is oriented with west being at the top.]] Tsenacommacah (pronounced in English; also written Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik) is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore. More precisely, its boundaries spanned by from near the south side of the mouth of the James River all
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thumb|300px|John Smith (explorer)|John Smith's map of the [[Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The map, c. 1612, details the location of numerous villages within Tsenacommacah. It is oriented with west being at the top.]] Tsenacommacah (pronounced in English; also written Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik) is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore. More precisely, its boundaries spanned by from near the south side of the mouth of the James River all the way north to the south end of the Potomac River and from the Eastern Shore west to about the Fall Line of the rivers.
The term Tsenacommacah comes from the Powhatan language, and means “densely inhabited land.”
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tsenacommacah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.