Alyeska mean "Great Land"
Alesha-ka means Great Land in Sanskrit. This is very well the original meaning used by the native indians!
Alaska is the English transliteration of the Aleyut word 'alyeska', meaning 'the great land', to distinguish it from the thousands of alyutian islands.
Juneau became the capital in 1906.
Alaska is the toponym or place name of the state of Alaska.
Alaska's official name is Alaska. (The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was introduced in the Russian colonial period, and it's derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.)
The name Alaska is taken from the Yupik word "Alyeska," meaning "great land" or "that which the sea breaks against".
The Aleutian Islands.
America's purchase of Alaska The purchase of Alaska Sec. of State Seward from Russia. It was thought that there was lillte to nothing in Alaska to warrent the purchase. Discoveries of gold and oil have shown his detracters wrong.
Alaska is the toponym or place name of the state of Alaska.
Alaska
Alaska zoo
Gulf of Alaska
Alaska Jack's birth name is John Giniva.
Alaska is part of the U.S.A. therefor uses the American Dollar
The Gulf of Alaska
the gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
It is the gulf of Alaska
the gulf of Alaska
The name of Alaska's capital building is called the Federal and territorial building.