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Selma is a city in . Selma has the distinction of being a notable place in the pages of history, for its role in the Civil War and doubly-so for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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  • Type: Town with 18,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: “Ecor de Bienville”, “High Soapstone Bluff”, “Moores Bluff”, “Piachee”, “Piachi”, “Selma, AL”, and “Selma, Alabama”
  • Postal codes: 36701-36703
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Edmund Pettus Bridge and National Voting Rights Museum.

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.

Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the…

Museum
Photo: Altairisfar, Public domain.
The , also known by a variety of other names throughout its history, is a historic Greek Revival building in Selma, , United States.

Selma

Latitude
32.4079° or 32° 24′ 28″ north
Longitude
-87.0207° or 87° 1′ 15″ west
Population
18,000
Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)
IATA airport codes
SEM and SES
United Nations Location Code
US SES
Open location code
864JCX5H+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153598206
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4089114
Wiki­data ID
Q79941
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Selma” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Afrikaans: “Selma”
  • Arabic: “سلما”
  • Armenian: “Սելմա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Selma”
  • Basque: “Selma”
  • Belarusian: “Селма”
  • Catalan: “Selma”
  • Cebuano: “Selma”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێلما، ئەلاباما”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێلما”
  • Chechen: “Сельма”
  • Chinese: “Selma”
  • Chinese: “塞尔玛”
  • Chinese: “塞爾瑪”
  • Czech: “Selma”
  • Danish: “Selma”
  • Dutch: “Selma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلما”
  • Esperanto: “Selma”
  • Estonian: “Selma”
  • Finnish: “Selma”
  • French: “Selma”
  • Galician: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Galician: “Selma”
  • German: “Selma”
  • Gilaki: “سلما”
  • Greek: “Σέλμα”
  • Haitian: “Selma”
  • Hebrew: “סלמה”
  • Hungarian: “Selma”
  • Ido: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Ido: “Selma”
  • Indonesian: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Selma”
  • Irish: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Irish: “Selma”
  • Italian: “Selma”
  • Japanese: “セルマ”
  • Korean: “셀마”
  • Ladin: “Selma”
  • Latvian: “Selma”
  • Malagasy: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Malagasy: “Selma”
  • Manx: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Manx: “Selma”
  • Marathi: “सेल्मा”
  • Mazanderani: “سلما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Selma”
  • Newari: “सेल्मा, अलाबामा”
  • Newari: “सेल्मा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Selma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Selma i Alabama”
  • Norwegian: “Selma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Selma”
  • Persian: “سلما، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “سلما، الاباما”
  • Persian: “سلما”
  • Polish: “Selma”
  • Portuguese: “Selma”
  • Romanian: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Romanian: “Selma”
  • Russian: “Селма”
  • Scots: “Selma”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Selma”
  • Serbian: “Selma”
  • Serbian: “Селма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Selma”
  • Slovak: “Selma”
  • Slovenian: “Selma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سلما، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Selma (Alabama)”
  • Spanish: “Selma”
  • Swedish: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Swedish: “Selma”
  • Tagalog: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Tagalog: “Selma”
  • Talysh: “Selma”
  • Tatar: “Сельма”
  • Turkish: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Turkish: “Selma”
  • Ukrainian: “Селма”
  • Ukrainian: “Сельма”
  • Urdu: “سلما، الاباما”
  • Urdu: “سلما”
  • Uzbek: “Selma”
  • Vietnamese: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Vietnamese: “Selma”
  • Volapük: “Selma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Selma, Alabama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Selma”
  • Welsh: “Selma, Alabama”
  • Welsh: “Selma”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Selma”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.