„Домът на змея“ в българската топонимия
“The Home of the Dragon” in Bulgarian Toponymy

Author(s): Nadezhda Dancheva
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Archaeology, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Oral history, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: The interest in the topic of this study was provoked by observations on the so-called “dragon toponymy ”in the Bulgarian lands. The empirical material is based on the list of names that contain the name dragon, “... one of the main characters in the mythological system of the Bulgarians”, which gradually disappears from the worldview of the Bulgarians, but remains in oral folklore and in toponymy (Georgieva 2013: 171). The geographical names are excerpted from the toponymic studies of Bulgarian scholars. The toponyms are subjected to semantic and structural classification. The contribution of the article is that it examines toponyms from the Bulgarian linguistic territory, which testify to the surviving pre-Christian beliefs of the Bulgarians, and focuses on the question of how archaeology meets myth, legends and folklore in the field of toponymy.

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