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Talladega County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama.〔"ACES Winston County Office" (links/history), Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), 2007, webpage: (ACES-Talladega ).〕 As of the 2010 census, the population was 82,291.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01/01121.html )〕 Its county seat is Talladega.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Talladega County is included in the Talladega-Sylacauga, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL Combined Statistical Area. ==History== Prior to Euro-American settlement in what is today Talladega County it was the home of the Abihka tribe of the Creek Confederacy.〔Swanton, John R. ''The Indians of the Southeastern United States'' as ''Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137''. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1946) p. 81〕 Talladega County was established on December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek Indians near the state's geographic center.〔 The county seat was established at Talladega in 1834.〔 The name Talladega is derived from a Muscogee (Creek) Native American word Tvlvteke, from the Creek ''tålwa'', meaning "town", and ''åtigi'', or "border" -- "Border Town"—a town indicating its location on the boundary between the lands of the Creek tribe and those of the Cherokee and Chickasaw.〔Jack Martin and Margaret McKane Mauldin, ''A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), s.vv. "''Tvlvtēke''," "''Talladega''."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Talladega County, Alabama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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