Confederation · approximate1570 – 1646 · 76 years
Powhatan Confederacy
Overview
Tsenacommacah is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore. More precisely, its boundaries spanned 100 miles (160 km) by 100 miles (160 km) from near the south side of the mouth of the James River all the way north to the south end of the Potomac River and from the Eastern Shore west to about the Fall Line of the rivers.
Wikipedia: Tsenacommacah·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.
- SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
- DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
- SNAPSHOT1607
- POLITY TYPEconfederation
Wars of this empire3
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Anglo-Powhatan Wars1610–46Significant
- Indian Wars1622–77Regional · 3.0K dead
- Powhatan-Monacan Wars1500–1607Regional
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1570 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Powhatan Confederacy (1570 – 1646). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-powhatan-confederacy · Sources & methodology