Nigrites

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Map of Nigritia (1729): "NEGROLAND and GUINEA. With the European settlements, Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & ​​c."
By H. Moll Geographer

Nigritia ( French Nigritie , English Negroland , from Latin Nigritia ) was a term used during the early colonial period for the sub-Saharan region of West Africa . The coastal regions of the western part of the greater Sudan landscape were explored more closely, while little was known about the interior, so Harms sums up: "In other words: Nigritie was a fantasy of European cartographers."

According to contemporary ideas, the rivers of Nigeria, Senegal , Gambia and Niger, formed a single river system. The inhabitants of Nigritia are called Negres , their shell money as Nigritarum moneta . The kingdoms of Bornu , Guangaro, Kano , Kassena , Agades , Tombus, Canvia, Gualata, Genehoa, Jouli, Zansara, Zegzeg, Gago, Baugana, Cuntori, Manding , Cacagcalis, Sausos, Becca Bena and Melli belong to the nigritia. When the rivers Senegal, Gambia and Niger could be distinguished, Nigritia was divided into Western Nigritia or Senegambia on the Atlantic Ocean and the inner or actual Nigritia on the Niger River.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Harms: The slave ship . Bertelsmann, 2004, page 41f., ISBN 3-570-00277-2 . Page 42 contains a map of northern Africa with nigritie.
  2. ^ Helmut Höfling: Human trains, peoples flows. The great book of the restless. Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen 1977, page 17. ISBN 3-7709-0398-6 .
  3. ↑ Robert Harms: The slave ship . Bertelsmann, 2004, page 41, ISBN 3-570-00277-2 .
  4. ↑ The latest country and ethnology: A geographical reading book for all levels : With charts a. Copper. Africa in general, North and Middle Africa, Volume 7, Prague 1820. On “Nigrizien” p. 86f.

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