Quick Question: Name of Successful Pink Map?

Isaac Beach

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Anyone know what a successful Pink Map might be called as a colony? Would they just mash the names Mozambique and Angola together or name it after a geographic figure or even call it 'Rosa' after the map itself?
I can't find any sources or even hypotheticals that have a name handy, though I can't imagine they'd just name it 'South-Central Africa' or anything along those lines merely because they didn't name Angola 'Portuguese West Africa' or what have you.
 
Anyone know what a successful Pink Map might be called as a colony? Would they just mash the names Mozambique and Angola together or name it after a geographic figure or even call it 'Rosa' after the map itself?
I can't find any sources or even hypotheticals that have a name handy, though I can't imagine they'd just name it 'South-Central Africa' or anything along those lines merely because they didn't name Angola 'Portuguese West Africa' or what have you.

The portuguese always named the land after some religious name or after an adaptation of previous names already in the natives languages.
 
The portuguese always named the land after some religious name or after an adaptation of previous names already in the natives languages.

So it could've just been something like (I don't speak Portuguese and these are probably closer to Spanish but they're approximates) "Asuncion" or "Redentor", "Salvador", "Cruz Sagrada" etc.?
 
They might have gone with Cecil Rhodes's preferred name for Rhodesia/Zambia/Zimbabwe, "Zambesia", or "Zambezea", reflecting the original Portuguese spelling.
 

TFSmith121

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Anyone know what a successful Pink Map might be called as a colony? Would they just mash the names Mozambique and Angola together or name it after a geographic figure or even call it 'Rosa' after the map itself?
I can't find any sources or even hypotheticals that have a name handy, though I can't imagine they'd just name it 'South-Central Africa' or anything along those lines merely because they didn't name Angola 'Portuguese West Africa' or what have you.

Nova Lusiada.

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Anyone know what a successful Pink Map might be called as a colony? Would they just mash the names Mozambique and Angola together or name it after a geographic figure or even call it 'Rosa' after the map itself?
I can't find any sources or even hypotheticals that have a name handy, though I can't imagine they'd just name it 'South-Central Africa' or anything along those lines merely because they didn't name Angola 'Portuguese West Africa' or what have you.

Actually the official name, up to 1951, of Angola was "Estado da África Ocidental" - "State of Western Africa".

Mozambique, that until 1911 was divided into two provinces, was officially named "África Oriental Portuguesa" - "Portuguese Eastern Africa".

A possible name would be "Estado da África Portuguesa" - "State of Portuguese Africa" - and that would be divided into several provinces - Angola, Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, and whatever other provinces would be made out of the newly acquired lands.

Don't go expecting any "New Lusitania" or "New Portugal" stuff because that simply wasn't the way Portugal named it's colonies, for example:

Our possessions in India were named "Estado da Índia" - "State of India".

Brazil was during multiple points of it's colonial history divided between several States, before being finally reunified into the "Estado do Brasil" - "State of Brazil"

Macau was "Colónia Portuguesa de Macau" - "Portuguese Colony of Macau".

Timor was "Timor Português" - "Portuguese Timor".
 
Actually the official name, up to 1951, of Angola was "Estado da África Ocidental" - "State of Western Africa".

Mozambique, that until 1911 was divided into two provinces, was officially named "África Oriental Portuguesa" - "Portuguese Eastern Africa".

A possible name would be "Estado da África Portuguesa" - "State of Portuguese Africa" - and that would be divided into several provinces - Angola, Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, and whatever other provinces would be made out of the newly acquired lands.

Don't go expecting any "New Lusitania" or "New Portugal" stuff because that simply wasn't the way Portugal named it's colonies, for example:

Our possessions in India were named "Estado da Índia" - "State of India".

Brazil was during multiple points of it's colonial history divided between several States, before being finally reunified into the "Estado do Brasil" - "State of Brazil"

Macau was "Colónia Portuguesa de Macau" - "Portuguese Colony of Macau".

Timor was "Timor Português" - "Portuguese Timor".

Actually Angola was never officially called Portuguese West Africa except as a retronym. Mozambique however was Portuguese East Africa after 1891.
 
Possible names (sorry if I get the Portuguese wrong)? Zambesia, Baroce, Cazembe, etc. All local African states, but personally Zambesia makes the most sense to me.

What happens after independence is a totally different thing as to what the new leaders call it.
 
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