The Ethnic Composition of the Rural Population of Shelonskaya, Derevskaya and Bezhetskaya Pyatina at the End of the 15 Century
The article characterizes the ethnic composition of the rural population of Shelonskaya, Derevskaya and Bezhetskaya Pyatinа at the end of the 15th century. Based on the anthroponymic and toponymic data of the cadastres, it was shown that the population of these territories was predominantly Slavic. In the northern parts of Shelonskaya and Bezhetskaya Pyatina, a cluster of Baltic-Finnish oikonymy can be traced. We can assume that this is due to the presence of vod’ in the north of the Shelonskaya Pyatina and Vepsians in Bezhetskaya Pyatina.