The Turkic Codex in Prokhor Kolomniatin Miscellany as a Source of the Crimean and Near Eastern Onomastics
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2022

This article discusses the onomastics, mainly toponymics and hydronymics, of the Crimean Khanate and the Near East, mentioned in the Turkic-Russian dictionary that along with several other unique phrasebooks and dictionaries is included into the manuscript collection of miscellaneous texts (“Tsvetnik”) compiled in 1668 by the Russian monk Prokhor Kolomniatin (State Historical Museum, Muzeiskoe sobr., no. 2803). This text contains a large number of narrative passages on various subjects and signi