In the article the author described microtoponymy of the sokólski district containing in their formative root vegetative terms being used by the locals. She also directed attention to a typically border-character of the analysed region. Sokólski district is located in the central part of Podlasie voivodeship next to the Belorussian border. Since time immemorial, it has been a place of connection for Baltic and Slavonic people with Eastern and Western Slavs. Ethnically and linguistically diversified settlement processes of the analysed region were reflected in the place names. There are not only Polish place names, but also the East Slavic, Baltic as well as hybrid Polish-Belorussian and Slavonic-Baltic forms.
This article is a contribution to the study of historical settlement of the central part of Podlasie region in the vicinity of Brańsk. On the basis of available archival sources, the author reconstructed the history of the Abramiki mill village and also established that the local family of millers was a branch of the Szpak boyar clan. The subject of the study was also the problem of origin of the toponym Abramiki and the microtoponym Szpakowszczyzna and their relations on the extra-linguistic level. The paper also discusses historical anthroponyms used to identify the members of the Abramik family of millers.
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