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==History== Prior to Euro-American settlement in this area, it was occupied by the Abihka tribe of the Creek Confederacy.<ref>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</ref> The United States forced the Creek to agree to treaties by which they ceded their land to the US, ultimately resulting in [[Indian Removal]] to west of the Mississippi River, to [[Indian Territory]]. Talladega County was established on December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek Indians near the state's geographic center.<ref name=aces/> The county seat was established at Talladega in 1834.<ref name=aces/> The name Talladega is derived from a [[Muscogee (Creek)]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] word ''Tvlvtēke,'' from the [[Muscogee language|Muscogee]] ''[[talwa|etvlwa]]'', meaning "town", and ''vtēke'', 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]].<ref>Jack Martin and Margaret McKane Mauldin, ''A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), s.vv. "''Tvlvtēke''," "''Talladega''."</ref>
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