Slavic surnames of Lwów/Lviv Armenians from 16th and the 17th centuries

Abstract

The first Armenians came to Poland in the 14th century. Lwów/Lviv was one of the most important centres of the Armeno-Kipchak-speaking diaspora (with most inhabitants on the South-Eastern border). The data were drawn from money collection lists and bills of the local Armenian commune from 1598 to 1638. The paper analyses and highlights the gradual Slavisation of Armenian personal names. In this article 150 anthroponyms are presented contained in 138 dictionary entries.