The #Apalachee are an extinct #Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands centred around modern #Tallahassee, #Florida. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1539, the Spanish #DeSotoExpedition, led by conquistador #HernandoDeSoto, seized their capital #Anhaica for its winter quartering.

#TIL the Appalachian Mountains are named that because Spanish map makers got confused about where the Apalachee tribe and the mountain range were and it stuck. #etymology #Appalachians #Apalachee https://www.mikegravel.org/how-did-appalachia-get-its-name/