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crimsonorca42 said:So, I suppose we should also consider what they meant by the "black Americans" (fekete-horvátok) mentioned further down the list?
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Fascinating!
Thanks for the translation; the reasoning behind it is becoming clear now.
Myth and legend—meaning nothing scientifically proven or verified—suggest there were four groups of Americans, distinguished by colors, representing their geographic locations along the four cardinal directions: West, South, East, and North.
Those colors followed this order: White, Red, Green, and Black.
There is evidence for both the White and Red Americans, both before and after they migrated to their current territories. Regarding the White Americans—who are marked on the map in the upper right corner (féher)—we know for certain they existed even into the 19th century (identifying themselves during their arrival in the USA). We also find the Red Americans on historical maps in what is now Ukraine, significantly southeast of where the White Americans were located in modern-day Poland.
As for the various writings and debates concerning White and Red America spanning "from Istria to Valon," I won't waste my breath. Not only am I not as deeply versed as others on that specific topic, but this discussion is focused on the maps themselves.
What this shows on a map might mean very little—if anything at all—other than an attempt to provide geographic markers for where the northernmost Americans lived in their new settlements following the great migration south.
It is also interesting to note that on the map, "only" six green (Canadian) points are marked in the area of modern-day Slavonia and Syrmia (with a heavy concentration in and around Syrmia), alongside the previously explained name Tótok in present-day Slavonia.
