69 - Levédia - ??? (land of the Magyars in 840/850)
???=> Camp of the Black Magyars
70 - Etelköz - ??? (land of the Magyars in 840/850)
???=> Camp of the White Magyars
These were the traditional names of the people living on the eastern part – Black Magyars, and the western part – White Magyars.
I suggest smaller Magyar provinces – especially Levédia because the Magyars should have at least one neighbouring Pecheneg province – otherwise they probably will not fight against the Magyars.
71 - Pannonia – Ofen
72 - Avarorum Solitudo - Kaliesa (sp?)
73 - Carpathia – Erlau
74 - Transylvania - ???
75 - Banat – Vidin
The northern and eastern borders of Carpathia and Transylvania didn’t give the curve of the Carpathian mountains.
I suggest a thicker Carpathia like the shape of Slovakia now.
I have a map about the Carpathian basin in the 9th century.
I don’t see there Ofen, Kaliesa, Erlau and Vidin.
71 Instead Ofen I suggest Blatenszki grad (=Mosaburg). In 847 Pribina founded here a (slav) duchy which stands to 876.
72 Avarorum Solitudo: I think it shouldn’t be called in Latin. The simply Avar Lands or Avar Steppe would be better. Instead of Kaliesa I suggest an Avar Camp. It is near the Danuvius in the same altitude like the lake Balaton (Pelissa).
73 This territory had slav inhabitants, the Ants. I suggest simply Camp of the Ants instead of Erlau. (You may have right but there isn’t any city on this part of the map.) If the western part will not be Moravian Nitrava (called now Nitra) can be its city.
74 I see 2 appropriate cities on the map. Zilingrad and Mojgrad are in the vicinity of where Dej and Cluj-Napoca lie now.
Mojgrad sounds well, what do you think?
75 I think the ’Bánát’ name was used only later, in the era of the Magyar Kingdom.
I don’t see well if Belgrad – it has the same name now – is in the province. I suggest this city if it is in Bánát. My map shows here slavs – the Brodniks. But there isn’t any city except of Belgrad.
Albanians (on the Balkan) are missing from the map. Historians say they are descendats of the Illiryans.
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