Title: Alabama
Content:  founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. The state's geography is diverse, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port. Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is now a predominantly conservative state, and it is known for its Southern culture. Today, American football, particularly at the college level at schools like Auburn University, the University of Alabama, Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Troy University, the University of South Alabama, and Jacksonville State University is a major part of the state's culture. Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish 
Title: Alabama State Capitol
Content:  The Alabama State Capitol, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the First Confederate Capitol, is the state capitol building for Alabama. Located on Capitol Hill, originally Goat Hill, in Montgomery, it was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960. Alabama has had five political capitals during its history since it was designated as a territory of the United States. The first was the territorial capital in St. Stephens in 1817; the state organizing convention was held in Huntsville in 1819, and the first "permanent" capital was designated in 1820 as Cahaba. The legislature moved the capital to Tuscaloosa in 1826, where it was housed in a new three-story building. Finally, in 1846, the capital was moved again, when 
Title: Index of Alabama-related articles
Content: Cahawba, Alabama, state capital 1820-1826 ; Cannabis in Alabama ; Capital of the State of Alabama ; Capital punishment in Alabama ; Capitol of the State of Alabama ; commons:Category:Alabama State Capitol ; commons:Category:Caves of Alabama ; Celebration Arena, Priceville ; Census statistical areas of Alabama ; Cities in Alabama ; Nicknames of Alabama cities ; commons:Category:Cities in Alabama ; City Stages Music Festival, Birmingham ; Climate of Alabama ; Climate change in Alabama ; Coat of arms of the state of Alabama ; Colleges and universities in AlabamaAlabama counties map.png of the state of Alabama]] ; Colony of Georgia, 1732–1776 ; commons:Category:Universities and colleges in Alabama ; Colony of West Florida, 1763–1783 ; commons:Category:Communications in Alabama ; Companies in Alabama ; Congressional districts of Alabama ; Constitution of the State of Alabama ; commons:Category:Convention centers in Alabama ; Counties of the state of Alabama ; commons:Category:Counties in Alabama ; Crime in Alabama ; commons:Category:Alabama culture commons:Category:Convention centers in Alabama ; Counties of the state of Alabama ; commons:Category:Counties in Alabama ; Crime in Alabama ; commons:Category:Alabama culture commons:Category:Alabama culture  
Title: Outline of Alabama
Content: Cities in Alabama (10 with largest population included below) ; State capital of Alabama: Montgomery ; City nicknames in Alabama ; Auburn, Alabama ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Decatur, Alabama ; Dothan, Alabama ; Hoover, Alabama ; Huntsville, Alabama ; Madison, Alabama ; Mobile, Alabama ; Montgomery, Alabama ; St. Stephens, Alabama ; Tuscaloosa, Alabama 
Title: Montgomery, Alabama
Content:  Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 2020 Census, Montgomery's population was 200,603. It is the third most populous city in Alabama, after Birmingham and Huntsville, and is the 119th most populous in the United States. The Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area's population in 2020 was 386,047; it is the fourth largest in the state and 142nd among United States metropolitan areas. The city was incorporated in 1819 as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River. 
Title: Alabama
Content:  Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of 1500 mi of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state. Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is 
Title: Black Belt (region of Alabama)
Content:  after the state began to develop more urbanized areas and an industrial economy. The state legislature did not redistrict to reflect population changes and the rise of urban areas from 1901 to 1972, when it was ordered by a federal court, following important apportionment cases such as Baker v. Carr (1964). Birmingham, the largest and most industrialized city in the state, was among those whose residents, both black and white, had been underrepresented for decades in the state legislature. The Black Belt's largest city, Montgomery, was designated as the capital of Alabama in 1846. Because Alabama was geographically central to the slave states, Montgomery was also designated as the original capital of the Confederate States of America. 
Title: Index of Alabama-related articles
Content: Stand in the Schoolhouse Door ; St. Stephens, Alabama, territorial capital 1817-1819 ; School districts of Alabama ; Scouting in Alabama ; Selma, Alabama ; Selma, Alabama in the American Civil War ; Selma to Montgomery marches ; Senate of the State of Alabama ; Senior Bowl ; List of ghost towns in Alabama ; List of places in Alabama ; Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival ; Skirmish at Paint Rock Bridge ; Spirit of America Festival ; commons:Category:Sports in Alabama ; commons:Category:Sports venues in Alabama ; State Capitol of Alabama ; State of Alabama website ; Constitution of the State of Alabama ; Government of the state of Alabama ; commons:Category:Government of Alabama ; Executive branch of the government of the state of Alabama ; Governor of the State of Alabama ; Legislative branch of the government of the state of Alabama ; Legislature of 
Title: Alabama
Content:  than 300,000 people by 1830. Most Native American tribes were completely removed from the state within a few years of the passage of the Indian Removal Act by Congress in 1830. From 1826 to 1846, Tuscaloosa served as Alabama's capital. On January 30, 1846, the Alabama legislature announced it had voted to move the capital city from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery. The first legislative session in the new capital met in December 1847. A new capitol building was erected under the direction of Stephen Decatur Button of Philadelphia. The first structure burned down in 1849, but was rebuilt on the same site in 1851. This second capitol building in Montgomery remains to the present day. It was designed by Barachias Holt of Exeter, Maine.
Title: Alabama City, Alabama
Content:  Alabama City is a former city and now a neighborhood within the city of Gadsden in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It was equidistant between Gadsden and Attalla, Alabama, approximately 2 1/2 miles west of downtown Gadsden.

Question: where is the capital city of alabama located?
Answer: Montgomery.