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Is it missing some labeling or a legend or are there just marked areas that don't really have a name? I mean areas like that around the Avar Khanate or the larg

• benbreen 11y ago
  Each map in the actual book has a page of text accompanying it and it usually explains what the shaded areas refer to. As I recall, the absence of a name is meant to imply a pre-state, tribal zone, and the different patterns indicate the basic cultural-linguistic group involved (i.e., diagonal lines = eastern European Slavic tribes, etc).