Settlement names referring to Czech settlers in medieval Hungary
Settlement names referring to Czech settlers in medieval Hungary

Summary/Abstract: There are no Hungarian written sources from the time preceding the Conquest. Latin-languagewritten culture in Hungary emerged with the establishment of the Kingdomof Hungary in the Carpathian Basin (in 1000 with the coronation of St. Stephen) andthe conversion to Christianity. The early Latin (less frequently Greek) written sourcescreated at this time (charters, chronicles, etc.) contain Hungarian words and expressionsonly sporadically and they were mostly proper names designating places. These,however, due to their early appearance and low number have proved to be truly valuablein studies of historical linguistics. Historical studies also greatly rely on the conclusionsdrawn from them when exploring the early history of Hungarians and theyattempt to describe the ethnic and population history of the contemporary CarpathianBasin also in consideration of the results of historical linguistics concerning the semanticand etymological features of names and their origin. In this respect, the settlementnames rooted in ethnonyms have a key role as they also shed light on relationsbetween Hungarians and other peoples. In this paper, I study those settlement namesthat may refer to Western Slavic settlers designated by the cseh ethnonym in medievalHungarian language.

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