Ethnic structure of the population of the Southern Obonezhye at the end of the XV century

• Published in: Finno-Ugric World
• Main Author: Boris I. Chibisov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: National Research Mordova State University; MRSU 2019
• Subjects: Novgorod land; scribal books; Obonezhye; onomastics; Karelians; Vepsians; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Onega; karelians; vepsian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15507/2076-2577.011.2019.02.195-204; https://doaj.org/article/139c0157533f4d849b122af6945829da

Introduction. On the southern coast of Lake Onega there is a significant layer of Baltic-Finnish geographical names. The medieval ethnic history of this region remains poorly understood. This is due to the fact that the Novgorod scribal books date back to the end of the XV century, the toponymic and...