Ethnic structure of Zaonezhie population 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; Zaonezhie; onomastics; Karelians; Vepsians; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Onega; karelians
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15507/2076-2577.011.2019.01.073-085; https://doaj.org/article/46eb13012fea42da9ab978c8ec374c8b

On the northern coast of Lake Onega there is the Zaonezhsky Peninsula, or Zaonezhie, which has retained a significant number of Baltic-Finnish geographical names. The medieval ethnic history of this region remains poorly researched because the Novgorod scribal books date back to the end of the 15th...