On the Mapping of Local Ethnic Groups in Belozerye with Reference to Onomastic Data

• Published in: Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts
• Main Author: Makarova, Anna Andreevna
• Other Authors: This work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (projeсt 17-18-01351 “Contact and Genetic Ties of North-Russian Vocabulary and Onomastics”).
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина 2017
• Subjects: Russian language; Baltic Finns; onomastics; place names; ethnonyms; collective nicknames; toponymic legends; Belozerye; linguistic geography; local ethnic groups; русский язык; прибалтийские финны; ономастика; топонимия; этнонимия; коллективные прозвища; топонимические легенды; Белозерье; лингвогеография; этнолокальные группы; Arkhangelsk; Arkhangelsk Oblast
• Online Access: https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2791; https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2017.19.4.064

In this study, Belozerye is considered within the borders of the Principality of Beloozero in the 14th century. These borders were mostly natural and generally coincided with the internal micro-regional division of Belozerye, connected with the history of its colonisation and ethnic features. From the point of view of modern administrative and territorial division, the districts of Vologda Oblast, surrounding Lake Beloye, Kargopolsky and Konoshsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast, and Poshekhonsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast all make part of the territory under study.The material for the research is mostly taken from the database of the Ural University Toponymic Expedition (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg). The subdatabase on Belozerye involves several thousands of place names.This article provides the results of the mapping of onomastic data. First and foremost, they are ethnotoponyms and collective nicknames, originating from ethnonyms (Zyr’, Kaybany, Finns, Swedes, Chud’, Chuhari and others), and toponymic legends connected with the aforementioned ethnonyms. The areas of all ethnonymic formations look similar: they stretch from the southwest to the northeast of Belozerye, pass along the banks of the large rivers (the Suda, the Andoga, the Kema) and large lakes (Beloye, Lache, Vozhe), which corresponds to the main direction of Russian expansion into Belozerye. An exception to this general trend is the onomastic facts associated with the Veps and the Lapps, which, apparently, give the most accurate information on the settlement of the respective ethnic groups. В данном исследовании Белозерье понимается в границах Белозерского княжества XIV в. Эти границы в значительной степени имели естественный характер и в целом соответствовали внутреннему микрорегиональному членению Белозерья, связанному с историей его колонизации и этническими особенностями. С точки зрения современного административно-регионального деления, территория исследования включает несколько районов Вологодской области, расположенных вокруг ...