Grekokatoliccy i prawosławni święci i błogosławieni pogranicza polsko-ukraińskiego w świetle antroponimii
Greek Catholic and Orthodox saints and blesseds of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the light of anthroponymy

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article are the names of the martyrs of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland at the turn of the 19th ant 20th centuries, presented in the context of their lives and religious and historical events. The aim of the discussion is to examine in a diachronic and comparative aspect the anthroponymic material excerpted from historiographic sources in relation to the former regional names of the borderland and ethnic lands of Ukraine. The conducted research showed a close relationship between the analyzed onimos and the Ukrainian anthroponymic system developed in historical times: the names in the Ukrainian language version are mostly confirmed in the Byzantine-Ruthenian calendar, and the surnames clearly refer to the anthroponymy of those parts of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland from which their bearers came, also revealed a significant resemblance to the names of the former Ukrainian territories: Volhynia and the Ruthenian voievodeship. The anthroponyms about Polish linguistic features testify to the specificity conditioned by the interethnic contacts typical of the borderland.

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