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Wyoming Valley

valley of the Susquehanna River, NE Pa.: site of a massacre (1778)

Etymology: < Ger Wayomick, etc. < Munsee (a Delaware language) chwewamink, lit., large river bottom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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