Negroland

Negroland, Nigrita, . ko Nigritia,  kalma ce ta tarihi a cikin taswirar Turai, tana nufin kwatancin Turawa na Yammacin Afirka a matsayin yanki mai cike da ƙorafi .

Wannan yanki ya ƙunshi akalla yammacin yankin da ake kira Sudan (kada a ruɗe shi da ƙasar zamani ). Kalmar ta yiwu fassarar kai tsaye ta larabci Bilad as-Sudan (بلاد السودان), ma'ana "Ƙasa na Baƙaƙe ", wanda ya yi daidai da yanki ɗaya. Akwai mutane iri-iri a yankin. Farisa suna kiran waɗannan yankunan Zangistan (زنگستان), ma'ana "Ƙasa na Baƙaƙe" kuma sunan Zang ga baki har yanzu ya rage a cikin sunan Zanzibar (daga Persian زنگبار (Zangibār) na Farisa ma'ana "The Coast of Blacks". Ma’aikatan jiragen ruwa na Farisa ne suka ba da sunan lokacin da suka ziyarci yankin a tsakiyar zamanai.  Wasu daga cikin manyan jahohin da ake yi wa kallon wani yanki na Negroland sun hada da Daular Bornu da Khalifancin Sakkwato .

"Negroland" yana wakiltar yankin tsakanin yankin Guinea da "Sahara" ko "Desert", Hamadar Sahara . Sunan "Sahara" ya samo asali ne daga kalmar Larabci don "hamada" a cikin sigar mace mara ka'ida, maɗaukakiyar ṣaḥra' (صحراء /ˈsˤaħra/), jam'i ṣaḥārā (صَحَارَى /ˈsˤaħaːraː/[4), [4]), ṣaḥraː/[4]), ɓaḥra (صَحَارَى / ˈsˤaħaːraː/[4), [5] [5][ار] ṣaḥrāwāt (صَحْارَاوَات), shaḥāriy (صَحَارِي). "Guinea", ba za a gauraye da na zamani kasar, sa'an nan koma zuwa kudu-ta fuskanci bakin tekun na yammacin Afrika da kuma ƙasar mikewa upriver daga can. Taswirar Herman Moll ta 1727 tana yiwa waɗannan lakabin " Tekun Haɓaka ", " Tekun Slave ", da " Gold Coast ". "Negroland" ita ce yankin arewacin wannan, kusa da gabas-yamma ga gabar kogin Neja, da gabar da ke fuskantar yamma. Taswirar Moll tana yiwa Gambia, Senegal, Mandinga da sauran yankuna da dama.

A cikin 1823, kusan wannan yanki an kwatanta shi da "Nigritia" akan taswirar Amurka wanda Fielding Lucas Jr. ya buga.

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