أراضي يازو

شريط يازو أو أراضي يازو Yazoo lands كانت المناطق الوسطى والغربية من ولاية جورجيا، حين كانت حدودها الغربية تمتد حتى نهر مسيسپي.^[1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now Mississippi.

The Yazoo lands would later become large portions of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi, with the exclusion of Spanish West Florida, which became the lower third of each state, and a narrow northern strip of land claimed by South Carolina in the Treaty of Beaufort that also stretched westward to the river, which became the two states' border counties with Tennessee.^[1]

In the 1790s, the Yazoo lands were the subject of a major political scandal in the state of Georgia, called the Yazoo land scandal. It led to Georgia's cession of the land to the U.S. government in the Compact of 1802.^[1]^[2]