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The boyki. Types of Polish residents: Bojki of Galicia, lithograph from 1837

Bojken ( Bojki , Polish Bojkowie ) are the names of the members of a group of Russians living in the Forest Carpathians . They live mainly in eastern Poland in the districts of Lesko and Ustrzyki Dolne in south-eastern Poland as well as in western Ukraine and speak a Russian dialect with Slovak influences. In Ukraine they are counted among the Ukrainians .

In the Brockhaus Konversationslexikon from 1894 it says about the settlement area of ​​the Bojken: The Ruthenian mountain people living in the Galician Carpathians from the sources of the San to the Lomnica are called Bojken….

origin of the name

Sometimes the Hutsuls, as well as internally, consider the Bojken to be descendants of the Celtic Boii tribe .

This would explain why the even today's boyks set themselves apart from the other Russians. There are also theories of origin of names, according to which the names are derived from the Celtic and Slavic syllable Boi or Boj , which stands for "fight".

Migration of the Serbs in the 7th century. (The starting point is the Carpathian region and further east.)

The name of the Bojken is sometimes associated with the legendary original homeland of the Serbs , which is called Boiki or Boika (Bojka) or " White Serbia ", Greek Boiki , Serbian Белa Србиja ( Bela Srbija ).

The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII wrote in De Administrando Imperio in the 32nd chapter: “It is known that the Serbs from the unbaptized Serbs, i.e. the so-called 'white' Serbs, who live behind Turkey, a region that bears the name Bojki, come."

Due to the contemporary naming, "Turkey" is to be interpreted as today's Hungary .

However, the situation of Boika has often become a point of contention for many Slavists . Mostly it is assumed to be in the southeast of present-day Poland, in Galicia in the area around the source of the Vistula and Dniester rivers , which corresponds to the current settlement area of ​​the Bojken. The connection to the Sorbs or other Slavic peoples is also discussed. Personalities such as Pavel Jozef Šafárik and Benjámin Kállay took part in the debate .

Web links

Commons : Bojken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carpathian Mountains . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 10, p. 187.
  2. ↑ Natalja Kljaschtorna: Boykivsʹke korinnya - oznaka fanatyzmu. PIK Pisnawalno-Informatiwno-Korisno, 2000, accessed November 2, 2018 (Ukrainian).
  3. ↑ Janine Fries-Knoblauch: The Celts. 3000 years of European culture and history . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-015921-6 .
  4. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: The Celts . Vienna 1997, p. 99 .
  5. ^ A b Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio . In: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies (Ed.): Greek text . tape 37 , no. 04 , 1967, ISSN  0009-6407 , pp. 468 , doi : 10.1017 / S0009640700020035 .
  6. ↑ Сава С Вујић: Северни Срби (не) заборављени народ: етникум који преживи сваку пропаст Publisher = Сава С. Бујич-Богдан М. Басарић, . 1998, ISBN 978-86-901945-1-3 , pp. 111 .
  7. ^ HH Howorth: The Spread of the Slaves . In: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . Part III: The Northern Serbs or Sorabians and the Obodriti , 1880, p. 52 , doi : 10.2307 / 2841974 .
  8. ^ HH Howorth: The Spread of the Slaves . Part III: The Northern Serbs or Sorabians and the Obodriti . Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1880, JSTOR 2841974
  9. ^ Béni Kállay: Istorija srpskoga naroda. 1882 (Serbian) books.google.de