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Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sonoma is one of the principal cities of California's Wine Country and the
Sonoma City Hall
In sonoma town
Sonoma, CA USA
Buena Vista Winery
Russian Colonization of North America describes colonies and territories claimed by the Russian Empire in the Pacific Coast region of North America from 1732 to 1867. Russian colonial possessions in t
Sonoma, California
…to fortify the Spanish presence north of the San Francisco Bay and thus deter Russian Empire (Russia) encroachment southward from further north in Russian America (where they'd established a presence back in the 1740s, a half-century before) into the Pacific Ocean coastal region. Franciscan padre / priest José…
The Bering Strait, where Russia's east coast lies closest to Alaska's west coast. Early Russian colonization occurred well south of the strait, in the Aleutian Islands.
Sibero-Russian promyshlenniki (hunter-trapper frontiersmen)
Flag of the Russian-American Company (1806–1881).
Tlingit Chieftain of Sitka