The antecedent of the book is a work by the same author entitled: Adatok a népnévvel alakult régi településneveink történetéhez [Supplement to the history of Hungarian settlement names formed from ethnonyms] (Debrecen, 2011). In it, the toponymic corpus is analysed from various perspectives. The result of the examination is the treatment of the onomastic corpus…
Ethnonyms play an important role in acquiring more information on early Hungarian history, however, there are several issues concerning Hungarian settlement in the Carpathian Basin that have remained unexplained up until the present day. Therefore it is vitally necessary to study oikonyms derived from ethnonyms in the Old Hungarian Era, which represent a valuable source…
The book contains the settlement names of the old Hungarian Bihar County in a dictionary format from the first data until 1600. The border-lines of the county changed relatively often over history, thus data of those village names which belonged to the county for a short period are also given. The author considers every toponym…
The geographical conditions of the largest county of Hungary in the Árpád Era were varied. Its onomastic corpus is particularly rich, and its population is not homogeneously Hungarian. The book deals with the stratum of settlement names of the onomastic stock of the county published in A régi Bihar vármegye településneveinek történeti-etimológiai szótára [A historical-etymological…
Earlier in the research of old Hungarian toponyms, the study of settlement names was given great priority. The primary reason for this preference was that, besides their philological value as onomastic sources, they were also important as conveyors of historical information. In the earliest Hungarian written records, Latin charters that emerged the first millennium, several…
