СИРІЙСЬКИЙ ПЛАСТ ТОПОНІМІЇ УКРАЇНИ ВІЗАНТІЙСЬКОГО ЧАСУ

Abstract

The article highlights the important consequences of reliable identification of the group of place names Zhabye as replicas of the prototype Jābiya – the capital of the Ghassanid (Byzantine federates in the VI–VII century). Thanks to this, it became possible to systematize already studied Ukrainian replicas of the Byzantine 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 Theodosius, Ya'qūbī Jacob Baradaeus. As of 2019, 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, Havronshchyna, Zhabelivka, group Zhabye (20), Yaroshi (4), Yaroshivka (4), Yaryshiv, Chepelivka, group Kutsivka, Mahdyn, Ladyzhyn (6), Pal'myrivka, Ponykva, Ponykovytsia, Rusava, Rosava (4), Rasavka, Rosokha, Rosokhovatka, Serhiyi, Tyvriv (2), Trypill'a (2), Shamy / Surzha, Surozh, Yastrub- (14), Pedosy, Khodosy, Yakubivka e. a. The first replicas of this vector (Tripol, Khalep, Korsun') were pointed out by V. Z. Zavytnevytch and A. I. Sobolevsky 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 2008–2019. Moreover, if each individual replica can be challenged, their mutual conditionality acquires a new scientific quality (V. I. Abaev). The current find of the initial territory with a 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 (IV–IX centuries).