EVALUATION OF THE PERSONAL NAMES IN ANKARA: FROM PAST TO PRESENT
GEÇMİŞTEN BUGÜNE ANKARA’DA KİŞİ ADLARI VE BUNLARIN TARİHÎ SÜREÇ İÇİNDE DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Author : İbrahim YILMAZ
Number of pages : 565-573

Abstract

Personal names are cultural elements which reflect society’s morals, regards, world-view, customs and traditions. It is also important to evaluate the personal names in the historical process with regards to observing the cultural and lexical changes. Court records are most important sources of the Turkish political, legal and social life in the Ottoman period. These documents are leads the onomastics researchers because they are guidelines for determining personal, ware and location names. In this study, the personal names in Ankara will be handled These names will be analyzed in point of their origins, and frequency for use. It is aimed to reveal the differentation of personal names in Ankara during the historical process. For this, at first, the personal names in the Court Records Number 2 (1588-1590) will be compared with the personal names in the Court Records Number 61 (1680-1682). Then, commonly used personal names in Ankara in the present and the most preferred personal names in Ankara in 2016 will be examined based on the data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT).

Keywords

Onomastics, Anthroponomy, Personal Names, Ankara, Court Records.

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