Home and Spread of the Slavs and a New Bibliographical Collection

Jürgen Udolph

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Home and Spread of the Slavs and a New Bibliographical Collection

Jürgen Udolph

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 11, Issue 4)

Received: 27 July 2023 Accepted: 21 August 2023 Published: 31 August 2023

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The article consists of two parts: On the one hand, a file created by the author with around 450,000 geographical names, which has been freely accessible on the Internet for several months, is presented. The title of this file is Nomina Geographica Europaca. Bibliographische Sammlung zu europäischen Orts-, Elur- und Gewässernamen. It can be reached at the following Internet address: https://adw-verwaltung.uni-goettingen.de/ortsnames/images-lightbox.php/. It took decades to compile the names contained therein. The collection contains water, place and field names, especially from Eastern and Central Europe. The author hopes that it will be useful for further research into the geographical names of Europe.In the second part of the article, a selection of geographical names from Eastern Europe is used to show that Slavic tribes knew and used different terms for geographical objects as they spread north and east. This opens up opportunities to identify older and younger Slavic settlements. Their mapping shows very clearly that older Slavic settlements can mainly be found in the Ukraine, while large areas of what later became Russian territory are primarily known for younger settlements. A comprehensive mapping of the mentioned place names further shows that the Pripyat' area cannot have been the home of the Slavic tribes, but that they must be sought south of it in the fertile areas of the Ukrainian black earth (loess soils). The sharp increase in the Slavic population described by ancient writers can be explained as follows: good arable soil is the basis for good and better harvests than in other areas with less good soil. As a result, the population in the areas with better soil grows faster and their languages and dialects spread more widely than those of other settlers.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20231104.16
Page(s)	136-147
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Keywords

Geographical Names, Slavic Tribes, Eastern Europe, Expansion, Hydronymy, Original Homeland, Soil Quality, Spread of Names

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