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Joara

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, about 300 miles from the Atlantic coast in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Joara is notable as a significant archaeological and historic site, where Mississippian culture-era and European…

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Replaced by Spanish Fort San Juan; fort destroyed
1567; 1568
Settled by Mississippian-era Native Americans
c. 1000

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History

Settlement

Spanish exploration

Abandonment

Rediscovery at the Berry site

Curiosities

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Joara

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Edges95
Triples180
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Captain Juan Pardo's first expedition · 27
Joara → Appalachian Mountains, Avilés, Beaufort County, Burke County, Catholicism, Charlotte, Denver, Governor Pedro Menéndez, Lincoln County, Mecklenburg County, Mexico, North Carolina, On December, Otari, Pardo, Parris Island, Santa Elena, South Carolina, Spain, Spanish
related to Hernando de Soto · 25
Joara → Appalachian, Blue Ridge, Chalaque, Cherokee, Cofitachequi, Coosa, De Soto, European, Georgia, Guasile, Hernando, In, North Carolina, She, Soto, Soto's, South Carolina, Spanish, Tennessee, The
related to Settlement · 20
Joara → AD, Appalachians, By, Cheraw, European, It, John Swanton, Mississippi, Mississippian, Mississippian-culture, Most, Native Americans, North Carolina, Ohio, Siouan, Spanish, Table Rock, The, The Joara, Upper Creek
related to Abandonment · 19
Joara → At, Catawba, Cherokee, English, European, Fort Henry, Gabriel Archer, He, In, James Needham, John Lederer, Mortality, North Carolina, Sara, Sarrah, Scholars, Spaniards, Spanish, Suala
related to References · 19
Joara → Appalachian Summit Area, Beck, Chiaha, David, From Joara, ISSN, Jr, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Mississippian Frontier, Moore, North Carolina Foothills, Robin, Southeastern Archaeology, Spanish Exploration, The Burke Phase, Wikisource-logo, Winter
related to Hernando Moyano's raids · 18
Joara → After, Captain Pardo, Chiaha, Chisca, During, Guapere, Hernando Moyano, Lower French Broad River, Maniateque, Moyano, Moyano's, Saltville, Spanish, Tennessee, The, The Spanish, Virginia, Watauga River
related to history · 18
Joara → Burke County, English, Fort San Juan, In, Jamestown, Juan Pardo, Located, Lost Colony, Mississippian, Morganton, North Carolina, Project, Regular, Roanoke Island, Spanish, The Joara, This, Upper Catawba Valley Archaeology
related to Rediscovery at the Berry site · 17
Joara → Archaeologists, Bandera's, Berry, Berry Site, Burke County, By, Catawba River Valley, During, Fort San Juan, In, Pardo's, Southeast, Spanish, The, These, This, Upper Catawba Valley
related to Native uprising and end of Spanish colonization · 12
Joara → Bandera, Captain Pardo's, English, Juan Pardo, May, North America, Pardo, Santa Elena, Shortly, Spain, Spanish, Together
related to Curiosities · 3
Joara → Spain, Spanish Wikipedia, There

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spanish fort juan north pardo site san carolina native european settlement mississippian present-day first area cherokee interior de english people

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JoaraReplaced by Spanish Fort San Juan; fort destroyed1567; 15681.00infobox
JoaraSettled by Mississippian-era Native Americansc. 10001.00infobox
Joararelated to AbandonmentAt0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentSpanish0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentMortality0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentEuropean0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentCatawba0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentCherokee0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentIn0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentEnglish0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentJohn Lederer0.60section
Joararelated to AbandonmentFort Henry0.60section

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