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Kentucky. Numerous Romani individuals who have relocated to Northern Kentucky, whether temporarily or permanently, have conformed to the stereotype associated with the Gypsy community. Texas. There are about 20,000 Roma in Texas. In Texas, the two main Roma populations are Vlax and Romanichal.
606. FIPS code. 21-00694. GNIS feature ID. 0485813. Albany is a home rule-class city [3] in Clinton County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 2,033 at the 2010 census. [4] It is the county seat of Clinton County. [5] It is located on U.S. Route 127, about 6 miles (10 km) north of the Tennessee border.
The Green River Shell Middens Archeological District is a historic district composed of archaeological sites in the U.S. state of Kentucky. All of the district's sites are shell middens along the banks of the Green River that date from the later portion of the Archaic period. [2] Studies of this assemblage of sites were critical in the ...
Bede people. Bede (famine: Bedeni) or Bedey, also known as Manta, is an Indo-Aryan nomadic ethnic group of Bangladesh. [1] The Bede traditionally live, travel, and earn their living on the river, which has given them the name of "Water Gypsy" or "River Gypsy". [2] Bedes are similar to European gypsies. [3]
The Wolf Creek Dam is a multi-purpose dam on the Cumberland River in the western part of Russell County, Kentucky, United States.The dam serves at once four distinct purposes: it generates hydroelectricity; it regulates and limits flooding; it releases stored water to permit year-round navigation on the lower Cumberland River; and it creates Lake Cumberland for recreation, the largest man made ...
May 09, 1973. Columbus-Belmont State Park, on the shores of the Mississippi River in Hickman County, near Columbus, Kentucky, is the site of a Confederate fortification built during the American Civil War. The site was considered by both North and South to be strategically significant in gaining and keeping control of the Mississippi River.
Rockcastle River. / 37.33611°N 84.11889°W / 37.33611; -84.11889. / 36.96000°N 84.35694°W / 36.96000; -84.35694. The Rockcastle River is a 54.8-mile-long (88.2 km) [2] river primarily in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States. It is a tributary of the Cumberland River and therefore, via the Ohio River, part of the ...
The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River, 260 miles (418 km) long, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.The river and its tributaries drain much of the central region of the state, with its upper course passing through the coal-mining regions of the Cumberland Mountains, and its lower course passing through the Bluegrass region in the north central part of the state.