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When did Alaska get its name?

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Alyeska mean "Great Land"

Alesha-ka means Great Land in Sanskrit. This is very well the original meaning used by the native indians!

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Alaska is the English transliteration of the Aleyut word 'alyeska', meaning 'the great land', to distinguish it from the thousands of alyutian islands.

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Juneau became the capital in 1906.

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