СИРІЙСЬКИЙ ПЛАСТ ТОПОНІМІЇ УКРАЇНИ ЧАСІВ ХАЛІФАТУ

Abstract

The article further sets out the important consequences of reliable identification of the group of place names Zhabye as replicas of the prototype Jābiya – the capital of the Ghassanids (Christian Arab federates of Byzantium in the 6th century). Thanks to this, it became possible to systematize already studied Ukrainian replicas of the Byzantine and subsequent age names-prototypes from Syria. Among the selected prototypes in the Middle East are: toponyms 'Asqalan, Callinicum / Raqqa, Dimashq Damascus, Fihl, Halab, ḤAWRĀN, Jābiya, Jarash, JIBAL, Quds = Bayt al-Maqdis Jerusalem, Laodicaea / Ladhiq, Palmyra, PHOENICIA, Ruṣāfa / Sergiopolis / Ῥάφες, Tiberias, Tripolis, Bilad al-SHAM / SURIYEH Syria, Yathrib/ Medina; anthroponyms Heraclius, Shurahbil, Theodosius, Ya'qūbī Jacob Baradaeus. As of 2020, highly reliable replicas of these prototypes were discovered in Ukraine: Oskolonivka, Skalonivka, Kalynuvatka, Kalynivka (over 80 place names), Raky, Rachyntsi, Damasky, Demeshkivtsi, Fyholivka, Khalepya, Khaleptsi, Tverdokhliby (3), Havrontsi, group Zhabye (20), Yaroshi (4), Yaroshivka (4), Chepelivka, Zhabelivka, group Kutsivka, Mahdyn, Ladyzhyn (6), Pal'myrivka, Ponykva, Rusava, Rosava (4), Rosokha, Rosochovatka, Serhiyi, Tyvriv, Trypill'a (2), Shamy / Surozh, Yastrub- (14 pl. n.); Irkliy r. (2), Irkliyiv, Irakliyivka, Zherebylivka, Zhuravlynka (4), Zhuravlivka (3), Pedosy, Khodosy, Yakubivka, e. a. The first replicas of this vector (Tripol, Khalep, Korsun') were pointed out by V. Z. Zavitnevitch and A. I. Sobolevsky (1888, 1911) as similar to the Byzantine place names. The remaining synchoric names were identified with varying degrees of reliability by the method of toponymic contextualization in 2005–2020. Moreover, if each individual replica can be challenged, their mutual conditionality acquires a new scientific quality. The current find of the initial territory in Syria and Palestine with a high concentration of synchoric and synchronous prototypes of this vector of toponyms-replicas in Ukraine radically improves scientific ideas about the whole picture of contacts between the steppe and forest-steppe population of the Dnieper region with Byzantium in the pre-chronicle time (4th – 9th centuries).