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Project code: 6-03-214


HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF CROATIAN TOPONYMY


Main researcher: BROZOVIĆ-RONČEVIĆ, DUNJA (120174)



Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 04/01/91. to 12/31/94.

Papers on project (total): 28
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 5
Institution name: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb (101)
Department/Institute: Linguistic Research Institute
Address: Ante Kovačića 5
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)1 449-374
Fax: 385 (0)1 449-378
E-mail: brozovic(a)mahazu.hazu.hr
Phone: 385 (0)1 449-093

Summary: The historical dictionary of Croatian toponymics deals with toponyms from the whole of Croatia recorded in historical sources from the 5th to the 17th century. Dictionary materials are excerpted only from published historical sources (documents, notary records, statutes of towns and regions), and from historical-toponomastic studies and monographs. The main corpus of the dictionary is based on the materials from the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The toponymy of historical Croatian areas, as well as those in which the Croats settled in the course of centuries, are discussed in special appendices to the dictionary. The dictionary will contain more then 50,000 toponyms. It will include a complete oikonymy (names of settlements), all important hydronyms (names of waters), oronyms (names of mountains and elevations), as well as important microtoponymy. Each toponym is entered in all its forms recorded in historical sources, with notes explaining its linguistic development and etymology.

Keywords: onomastics, toponomastics, oronymy, hydronymy, place-name dictionary, historical toponymy, Croatian mediaeval history, history of language, etymology, Croatia

Research goals: The final goal of the project is to compile a Historical Dictionary of Croatian Toponymy which will include the complete Croatian historical toponymy. The dictionary will also provide basis for the making of a historical topographic atlas ofCroatia. Since the toponyms in a dictionary conceived in this way do not give only linguisticaly relevant information, their value for the studies of the history of the language, language contactsand historical dialectology is evident. This is all the more so,since the toponyms often do not follow consistently the regular language development so that they sometimes remain the only existing evidence of historical development stages. On the other hand, toponyms are an indispensable source of information for anumber of historical disciplines, primarily history, geography, archaeology, and their related fields, such as demography, migration studies, historical and legal studies etc. We should point out that toponyms dating back to prehistorical periods provide often the only evidence of the original language mosaic and of exceptionally complex language stratification in the Croatian area. The project is interdisciplinary in character and its final result, a toponymic dictionary will be a source of valuable information to various users.


COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: Feldforschung bei slawischsprachen Volksgruppen Oesterreichs
    Name of institution: Balkankommission der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
    City: Austrija - Beč, 1010

  2. Name of project: 6-02-203 Izvori, studije i pomagala za hrvatsku povijest
    Name of institution: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  3. Name of project: 6-03-055 Onomastička istraživanja u Hrvatskoj
    Name of institution: Zavod za hrvatski jezik
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  4. Name of project: 6-03-069 Upanišadi, vedska i indoeuropska predaja, hrvatsko nazivlje
    Name of institution: Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za opću lingvistiku i orijentalne studije
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia


COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Zavod za hrvatski jezik
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 23000 - Zadar, Croatia

  3. Name of institution: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  4. Name of institution: Inštitut za slovenski jezik SAZU
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 61000 - Ljubljana, Slovenija

  5. Name of institution: Istituto di filologia slava
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of experts
    City: 35100 - Padova, Italija

  6. Name of institution: Istituto di glottologia
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 35100 - Padova, Italija

  7. Name of institution: Sorbisches Institut
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Budyšin/Bautzen, Njemačka

  8. Name of institution: Institut fur Sorabistik
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Leipzig, Njemačka

  9. Name of institution: Jazykovedny ustav Ludovita Štura
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Bratislava, Slovačka

  10. Name of institution: Ustav pro jazyk česky
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Prag, Češka

  11. Name of institution: Harvard University
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 02138 - Cambridge, SAD

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