Ethnic and religious connections reflected in anthroponomastics. Observations based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)]

This study aims at presenting the ethnic and religious mosaic in the county of Suceava at the beginning of the 19th century based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)], published in 2017 by Marius Adumitroaei and Mircea Ciubotaru. These censuses include lists of landowners, tribute payers and people exempted from tribute, providing valuable information about the dynamic of the population, the financial state of the inhabitants, the types of work in which people were engaged at that time or prior to that period, the ethnic and religious affiliation of the people included in the censuses, their kinship, marital status and the like. Moreover, the censuses provide significant information regarding the anthroponomastics of the area, as they mark a major moment in the formation of the system of Romanian personal names, that is, the introduction on a large scale of a second name (which accompanied people’s first name). The ethnic connections illustrated by these documents can be noticed in the presence of ethnonyms, some of which became anthroponyms (Cazacu, Grecu, Leahu, Rusu, Turcu), as well as in the presence of foreign names specific to certain ethnic groups (Gorovei, Melniciuc, Clim, Clucenschi, etc.).