Original scientific paper
Medieval Toponyms of Northern Croatia - Cultural and Interdisciplinary Aspects of Toponomastics
Zdenko Balog
; Križevci, Croatia
Abstract
This paper deals with special aspects of toponymy in the context of Auxiliary Sciences of History. Being fully aware that we actually ‘borrow’ toponomastics here, in the context of onomastics being listed in scientific disciplines under linguistics , with this paper we desire to promote and use some aspects of toponymy, giving it undeniable prerogatives of Auxiliary Science of History. This empowers a historian with significant, until now rarely explored regions and data from peripheral areas, lacking primary written sources.
The are of research was medieval Križevci county and parts of Zagreb county, as well as Varaždin county, studying cases of selected toponymy from two groups: waters, primarily river names (hydronyms) and toponymy from trees and plants in general. This limited target of research could not have been thoroughly researched and catalogued, this not being our primary target after all, as the matter is too complex, going well beyond our framework. However, some targeted roots and toponymy bases, like ‘duba’ , ‘jalše’, etc, just like some hydronyms like Drava, Koruška, Čazma, Bednja, each open up themselves individual and general problems in abundance, raising a number of interesting questions and unpretentiously suggesting certain answers in return.
Keywords
toponomastics (toponymy); Middle Ages; northern Croatia; medieval Slavonnia; hydronym; tree names
Hrčak ID:
77857
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2009.
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