Historical anthroponymy from the village of Kobalista, Drama region

Georgi Mitrinov
Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The topic of historical anthroponymy is not well developed in Bulgarian onomastics. This applies to the study of historical anthroponymy of individual settlements, regions, districts, in a synchronic and diachronic plan. And it is important, especially when
it comes to historical anthroponymy from areas that remained outside the territory of today’s Bulgaria. The anthroponymy from the 16th and the beginning of the 20th centuries from the old Bulgarian settlement of Kobalishta, Drama region, was examined, and a comparison
was made. The trends in the development of the anthroponymic system of the village of Kobalishta have been traced for a period of over three centuries.

Keywords: onomastics, historical anthroponymy, history of the Bulgarian language, Bulgarian villages in the Drama region