Stories about merchants or cunning merchant Chapter 6

If you look at the topographic map whether it is Central Asia or any other space, you can find a lot of unfamiliar or non-typical names for the modern language . And it is not surprising, it is in the order of things . Since in the vast spaces, millennia, centuries ago, many ethnic groups lived .

The history of the area retained the memory of these peoples . Some modern researchers suggest that the ancient and not very toponymic names can be searched for: ancient deposits and mines, places of nomadic tribes of certain genera, key points of migration of particular ethnic groups, etc .

AdvertisementAlso to clarify some ancient legends and traditions interesting from the historical - archaeological point of view . Indeed, as is well known in the East, there are never random toponymic names .

On geographical maps of the Central Asian region, you can sometimes find the names of endings such as "Kon, Madan", "Konkan", "Gugirt", "Surb", "Rohravi con", "Par", "Bakir", "Miskan" and t . d And they are not as simple as it seems at first glance .

For example, "Kon, Madan" is translated from force as "a mine, deposit," Konkan "- from force, Rudokop," Gugirt "from force, sulfur, Surb - force, lead," Rohravi con "from force, - adit , "Rag" - with a forsi - vein, "Bakir" - from ancient Turkic - copper, "Miskan" from a more modern Turkic - copper mine . "Nukra, Sim" with forsi - Silver, "Fid-d-atun" from Arabic - Silver .

By toponyms, one can also learn about other elements of the anthropogenic infrastructure: "Kala, Hisor, expired, Sangar" with forsy - fortress, "Haroba" - forsy - ruins, "Kharabai kushki kadimi" with forsy - ruins of the old castle, "Romitan" with ancient Sogdian - roadside fortress .

"Balik" with forsi - the city, "Katay" - Pecheneg - fortress, fortification, "Katag" Chagatai - fortress, "Hisn" Arab - fort, "Kar" - Finno-Volga - city, fortified place, nest, "Urd" - Mongolian - Khan rate .

Sometimes in the expanses of post-Soviet Central Asia there are also Greek names, such as, for example, "Burdagui" which means hotel .

There are also toponyms in Sanskrit in this territory, such as, for example, "Arshan" - holy water, mineral water, healing spring, "Arasan" - healing spring .

Not to mention purely Mongolian toponyms, such as "Yom, Yam, Pulp, Jam" - the post station, "Lidae" - clean the well, "Sir" - the hill, ridge, "Tolgoi" - the lonely hill, hill, peak, "Bogdo" - divine, holy, holy honored, "Ula, Ola" - mountain, "Olom" - ford, "Kahlanga" - gate, "AmTamchi" - mountain valley, span, "Ar" - north, back, reverse side .

There are also Chinese names, but they are already concentrated in the Tien Shan region (from the Chinese . Heavenly mountains), for example, the toponym "Shui" is water, "Shan-shui" is a waterfall .

In principle, it is possible to write to infinity, to study toponyms is very fun, interesting, entertaining, you can devote all your life to this topic and learn a lot, but you can't learn everything until the end . . .

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