Tahlequah is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
County: Cherokee
Elevation: 814 ft (248 m)
Area code(s): 539/918
Cherokee Nation: founded 1838; second capital city
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