Етнічна та конфесійна ідентичності у формуванні міських «націй» Львова в другій половині xiv – першій половині xv ст. («Вірмени» і «татари»)
Year: 2015

The article analyses personal names as well as “Armenian” and “Tatar” identity
markers recorded in the registers of the city of Lviv (Lemberg). It concludes that
the main criterion of identity and belonging to one of the four urban “nations”
was one’s affiliation with a certain religious community. Due to numerous religious
conversions, a transfer from one urban “nation” (jurisdiction) to another – mostly
to the dominant Catholic “nation” – was a common phenomenon leading to the
change of