WHO TOOK SICILY FROM THE ARABS? NORMAN TERMS, DENOTING SOCIAL COMMUNITIES, IN THE CHRONICLE OF GOTTFRIED MALATERRA (LATE 11<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY)
The article focuses on the problem of taxonomic units terminology denoting the hierarchical elements of social organization: “genus”, “familia”, and “progenium” in the 11<sup>th</sup> century chronicle “The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of Duke Robert Guiscard, his brother,” by Gaufred Malaterra. The main question of this study is how closely Malaterra’s views on said hierarchical elements of social organization reflect his time’s reality. The author presumes this research to be insightful for a wide range of historians, and Orientalists in particular (see the work of Professor Hiroshi Takayama of the University of Tokyo, who compared migration processes in Arab-Norman Sicily and in medieval Japan). Namely, taxonomic units like progenium (linage), considered in this work, can be of great interest for Turkology scholars, because this term is easily traceable in the patronymic family-related groups of the vast majority of world’s nations, being preserved for a long time in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Exploring the terms “genus”, “familia”, and “progenium” in the Norman chronicle could be a key to the social organization mechanism not only of the Normanic tradition, but also, for example, of the nomadic tribes in Central Asia. In order to correlate the realities of 11<sup>th </sup>century with the views of Gaufred Malaterra, the author provides here his translation of some excerpts from the Norman chronicle.