S: (n) Richmond, capital of Virginia (capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War)
S: (n) Blacksburg (a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains)
S: (n) Jamestown (a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607)
S: (n) Newport News (a port city in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of the James River off Hampton Roads; large shipyards)
S: (n) Norfolk (port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy)
S: (n) Virginia Beach (the largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases)
S: (n) Bull Run (a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War)
S: (n) Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)
S: (n) Clinch River (a river that rises in southwestern Virginia and flows generally southwestward across eastern Tennessee to the Tennessee River)
S: (n) Elizabeth River (a short river in southeastern Virginia flowing between Norfolk and Portsmouth into Hampton Roads)
S: (n) Hampton Roads (a channel in southeastern Virginia through which the Elizabeth River and the James River flow into Chesapeake Bay)
S: (n) James, James River (a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads)
S: (n) Potomac, Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay)
S: (n) Shenandoah River (a river of northern Virginia that empties into the Potomac at Harpers Ferry)
S: (n) Shenandoah Valley (a large valley between the Allegheny Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Virginia; site of numerous battles during the American Civil War)
S: (n) Aegospotami, Aegospotamos (a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War)