{"id":1368,"date":"2024-12-30T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hist-geo.ru\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:18:24","slug":"musihin-a-l-afatkun-vyatka-ili-rozhdestvenskoe-gorodishhe-istoriografiya-voprosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hist-geo.ru\/en\/2024\/12\/30\/musihin-a-l-afatkun-vyatka-ili-rozhdestvenskoe-gorodishhe-istoriografiya-voprosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Musikhin A. L. Afatkun: Vyatka or the Rozhdestvenskoe Settlement: Historiography of the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexey L. Musikhin<\/strong>
\nIndependent Researcher
\nNizhny Novgorod, Russia
\nE-mail:\u00a0a-musikhin@narod.ru<\/a>
\nORCID: 0009-0004-9324-3796<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Download<\/a> | Back to the Content<\/span> \u2116 4. 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

UDC 94(470.342)<\/span>
\nDOI: 10.58529\/2782-6511-2024-3-4-8-19<\/span><\/p>\n

ABSTRACT. <\/strong>The article examines the 19th \u2013 21st centuries historiography of the localization of the town of Afatkun, mentioned in the 14th \u2013 early 15th centuries encyclopedias of the Mamluk period by employees of the state Chancellery of Egypt al-Umari and al-Qalqashandi. According to the encyclopedias, Afatkun was located north of the city of Bulgar. The most common versions of researchers are: Afatkun is the land of the Visu or Vogul people or these peoples themselves; Afatkun is the Rozhdestvenskoye settlement archaeological site on the Upper Kama; Afatkun is one of the cities of Vyatka land with the Russian name Vyatka. It is established that for the most accurate localization of this settlement, a combination of four factors is necessary: identification of the correct reading of the name and its interpretation; translation into the metric system of the number of days of travel from Bulgar to this locality; astronomical and mathematical calculation of the northern latitude of the locality based on the duration of the shortest night in it; the time of appearance of this locality in the Egyptian encyclopedias. Considering all factors, it was found that at present the most well-grounded is the A. N. Polyak \u2014 V. V. Napolskykh version that the town, correctly read as Afatkun, was located on the territory of the somewhat later formed Vyatka land, named in the al-Qalqashandi encyclopedia by the same name, and is identified with the Russian name Vyatka. This means that the toponym Vyatka appeared in the al-Umari encyclopedia about 25\u201330 years earlier than in the all-Russian chronicles.<\/p>\n

KEYWORDS: <\/strong>encyclopedias of the Mamluk period, al-Umari, al-Qalqashandi, Bulgar, Afatkun, Vyatka land, Rozhdestvenskoye settlement.<\/p>\n

For citation<\/em>: Musikhin A. L. [Afatkun: Vyatka or the Rozhdestvenskoe Settlement: Historiography of the Question]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2024, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 8\u201319. DOI: 10.58529\/2782-6511-2024-3-4-8-19 (In Russian).<\/p>\n

Received 5 August 2024
\nAccepted 2 December 2024<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2024 The Author<\/p>\n

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