Mobile, Southwest Alabama’s Scintillating Seaport
By Dorothea S. Michelman Mobile, which celebrated its tricentennial just last year, owes its name to a happy juxtaposition of cross-cultural communication and historic circumstance. A variation on the familiar story of tourists stumbling over words in foreign languages, 16th-century Spanish explorers interpreted the native name for Mobile Bay “Mobila” as “Movile,” which …
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