Getting to the definition of political boundaries, we note, however, that written data is not always enough to determine border areas. In this case, you have to use other pointers. So it is known that the promise-
The fact is that the ancient Russian princes built border fortifications, nasiviya called: 10rodok, zorode, zorodishche, zorodnya, border, abroad, etc. ““). Border residents settled under the Ukrainian border and formed villages and cities with the same names.
Knowing this circumstance and carefully looking at the maps for those places where we can locate the ancient border, we actually find a whole series of mudflows with such names that should lead us to the conclusion that the border really lay there. Moreover, since the ethnographic borders for the most part coincided with the political ones, we always find at the border places villages with names reminiscent of this or that tribe. With these names, the people obviously tried to indicate that the inhabitants belonged to one or another tribe. Thus, we will encounter names reminiscent of Krivichi: Krivsk, Krivichi, Kriveno, etc., Radimichi: Radimich, Radulya, etc., Dregovichi: Dorogichin, etc. item 5). Taking into account the above, it is possible to draw the boundaries of the Smolensk Yorivichs in this way.
But sometimes it is possible to pick up several similar-sounding geographies. names or even quite similar ones, however, none of the sources indicate the approximate location of this location. Then, we think, we should rather stick to the names of rivers and lakes, since it is ancient, in general, called the populated area and their very names are more firmly established among the people. At the same time, it is a well-known fact that the Russian Slavs often called populated cities after r%zki. We will adhere to this basis in subsequent essays.
44) In addition to various indications from Russian photo-paintings that the ancient border Ukrainians were called zorodki, we will cite an interesting fact from Martin Gall; Mi @pesh a@ sazfgali vgodek obshtepaii sopetesagev, p. 71 in ed. 1742 Or from Dlugosh: Kaftsayu ‘ashesh sazbgo, dp04 a Ro]otaz @todek osafabat, etc. N1z6. Ro], ed. in 1711, t. G, b. 295.
45) Barsov used this method in his “Essays on R. Historical Geography”. However, the name +birth, birthplace, etc. could have occurred at a later time, for 000meaning later boundaries and finally, for other, unknown reasons. Therefore, it is quite possible to rely on the data of modern geographical nomenclature and base conclusions on them not entirely thoroughly: these data can only serve to determine the boundaries of those countries where we have a positive indication of the source. We used modern data very carefully.