Zaścianek Szpakowszczyzna a geneza powstania osady młyńskiej Abramiki – uwagi historyczno-onomastyczne

Abstract

This article is a contribution to the study of historical settlement of the central part of Podlasie region in the vicinity of Brańsk. On the basis of available archival sources, the author reconstructed the history of the Abramiki mill village and also established that the local family of millers was a branch of the Szpak boyar clan. The subject of the study was also the problem of origin of the toponym Abramiki and the microtoponym Szpakowszczyzna and their relations on the extra-linguistic level. The paper also discusses historical anthroponyms used to identify the members of the Abramik family of millers.