Albemarle isn't a word for a geographical area -- part of the word
albemarle does refer to a geographical area, but not the whole word.
The areas in the U.S. that have that name, have it because they were
named for the Earl of Albemarle and not for any geographic reasons.
Tidewater has more then one geographical meaning - 1. Water that
inundates the land when the tide is very high, 2. River water and
streams that are effected by the tides, and 3. low, coastal lands.
A savannah and savanna is a flat, mostly treeless, grassland.
So, a piece of land could geographically be both a savannah and a
tidewater, provided the low, coastal lands were also flad and mostly
treeless. And, quite a few of the early settlers of the Albemarle
region of North Carolina came from the tidewater region of Virginia.
I've filtered out one term on google, but have never tried to filter out
more than one term, so I'm not sure that it can be done (if someone here
has done that, then we'll get to learn something new <grin>). I'm not
sure that the definitions will be that much help for you, either, but
hopefully they'll be of some use.
Cathy
singhals wrote:
I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...
What I can't find are my notes from that class?

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...
Clues welcomed.
Cheryl