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Tanasi

Nashville, Huntsville, Clarksville and Evansville. Tanasi was a Cherokee town on the Little Tennessee River. The river took its name, and then the state.

Zone
Sun Standard Time, UTC−6
Biggest city
Nashville
Sun highest
11:47 on the clock in Nashville, all year
People
about 5.2 million
Covers roughly
middle Tennessee, western Kentucky, north Alabama, Evansville
Named for
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee hunting grounds
Meaning
a Cherokee town name; source of Tennessee

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