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n. A member of a small Native American group once living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.
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The Croatan were an Algonkian tribe living in what is now the Carolinas.
Croatan may also mean:
- Croatan Beach, Virginia Beach, Virginia, neighborhood of Virginia Beach
- Croatan Sound, an inlet on the North Carolina coast
- Croatan National Forest, a national forest in North Carolina
- Croatan High School, a public secondary school near Croatan National Forest
- USS Croatan, two American aircraft carriers of that name
- Croatan (World of Darkness), an extinct tribe of werewolves in the roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Croatan, a 2005 studio album by Philadelphia metal band Starkweather released by Candlelight Records in 2006
The Croatan (also spelled Croatoan) were a small Native American group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. They may have been a branch of the larger Roanoke people or allied with them.
Usage examples of "croatan".
Nova Babylonia had a fantasy reputation, going all the way back to the first contacts with Croatan, as a land of luxury, almost of decadence -- an image intensified by the relative rarity of actual contact and reliable information.
If the lost colony had gone to Croatan, it was probable that Ananias Dare and his wife, the Governor's daughter, and the little Virginia Dare, were with them.