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Sitka

Also known as New Archangel, Novo-Arkhangelsk

Sitka is a city on Baranof Island in south-east Alaska. Founded as New Archangel by Alexander Baranov in 1804, after the Tlingit had destroyed an earlier Russian fort in 1802, it became the capital of Russian America in 1808. The transfer of Alaska to the United States took place there in 1867, and it remained the territorial capital until 1906.

Sitka
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Russian America

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sitka. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sitka
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