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| subdivision_type1 = States | subdivision_name1 = | established_title = Colonized as Province of Carolina | established_date = 1663 | government_footnotes = | unit_pref = US | area_footnotes = | area_total_sq_mi =85,839 | area_land_sq_mi =78,804 | area_water_sq_mi =7,025 | area_water_percent =8.2 | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_ft = |subdivision_type3 = Principal cities |subdivision_name3= - Charlotte, NC - Raleigh, NC - Greensboro, NC - Greenville, SC - Columbia, SC - Charleston, SC - Winston-Salem, NC| | population_footnotes = | population_total = 14,622,899 | population_as_of = 2013 | population_density_sq_mi= auto | population_demonym =Carolinian | population_note = | timezone1 = EST | utc_offset1 = -5 | timezone1_DST = EDT | utc_offset1_DST = -4 | footnotes = }} The Carolinas are the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina, considered collectively. Combining North Carolina's population of 9,848,060 and South Carolina's of 4,774,839, the Carolinas have a population of 14,622,899 as of 2013. If the Carolinas were a single state of the United States, it would be the fifth most populous state, behind California, Texas, Florida, and New York. The Carolinas were known as the Province of Carolina during America's early colonial period, from 1663 to 1710. Prior to that, the land was considered part of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, from 1609 to 1663. The province, named ''Carolina'' to honor King Charles I of England, was divided into two colonies in 1729, although the actual date is the subject of debate. ==History== Sir Robert Heath (1575–1649) was an English judge and politician who was also a member of the English House of Commons from 1621 to 1625. Sir Robert Heath was granted charter over the lands between latitudes 31° and 36° north, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Heath's patent required he plant a colony that was never fully realized. The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the Colony of Virginia at 36 degrees north to 31 degrees north (along the coast of present-day Georgia). In 1665, the charter was revised slightly, with the northerly boundary extended to 36 degrees 30 minutes north to include the lands of the Albemarle Settlements along the Albemarle Sound who had left the Colony of Virginia. Likewise, the southern boundary was moved south to 29 degrees north, just south of present-day Daytona Beach, Florida, which had the effect of including the existing Spanish settlement at St. Augustine. The charter also granted all the land, between these northerly and southerly bounds, from the Atlantic Ocean, westward to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. The Charter of 1663 chartered the territory as an English Proprietary colony assigning rights to eight English Noblemen. These noblemen are known as the Lords Proprietors of Carolina forming the Province of Carolina. * George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670) * Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) * John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1607–1678) * William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697) * Sir George Carteret (c.1610–1680) * Sir William Berkeley (1606–1677) * Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet (1608–1666) * Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683). Between 1663 and 1729 there were many disagreements relating to defense, governance and the difference between the two differing agrarian styles employed by the inhabitants of the Colony of Virginia and that practiced by the planters arriving to Charles Town from the West Indies and Barbados. In 1729 the Province of Carolina was divided when the descendants of seven of the eight Lords Proprietors sold their shares back to the Crown. Only the heirs of Sir George Carteret retained their original rights to what would become the Granville District. Both the Province of North Carolina and the Province of South Carolina became English Crown Colonies in 1729.〔(The Split – One Colony Becomes Two ) from carolana.com〕 § 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Carolinas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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