Tributary network · approximate1400 – 1700 · 300 years
Coosa Paramount Chiefdom
Overview
The Coosa Chiefdom was a powerful Muskogean-speaking Native American paramount chiefdom centered in what are now northwestern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, in the United States. The total population of Coosa's area of influence, reaching further into present-day Tennessee and Alabama, has been estimated at 50,000. It was inhabited from at least 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms.
Wikipedia: Coosa chiefdom·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coosa_chiefdom
- SNAPSHOT1540
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Coosa Paramount Chiefdom at de Soto contact (1540): upper Coosa River valley + Etowah/Oostanaula tributaries. INLAND only.
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Timurid Invasions1368–1405World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83World-changing · 5.0M dead
- French Wars of Religion1562–98World-changing · 4.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1400 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Coosa Paramount Chiefdom (1400 – 1700). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-coosa-chiefdom · Sources & methodology