2024. no 1. Ismet Zaatov

Mutual influence of the Crimean Tatar and Crimean-Armenian cultures
in the context of musical, lexical and antroponymic parallels

Ismet Zaatov

Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences;
Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University

Abstract. The process of formation of the Crimean Tatar musical culture, as a whole, can be divided into periods of post-Byzantine – Kypchak – Golden Horde, Tatar – Seljuk – Islamic, Ottoman – Nogai ethno-musical influence on the development of this process, as well as on the period of merging of the musical culture of the steppe and south mountain Crimean Tatars (Tats). The process of formation of the Crimean Tatar musical art, to a certain extent, was also influenced by the musical culture of the Crimean-Armenians who lived together with the Crimean Tatars in the Crimea for half a thousand years and were evicted in 1778 to the lower Don. The author made an attempt to identify and,on the basis of lexical analysis of the language and historical antroponymy of the Crimean-Armenians and Crimean Tatars, as well as on the level of mutual influence and interpenetration of the musical cultures of both ethnic groups – to fix the degree of participation of the musical and song folklore of the Crimean-Armenians in the development of the Crimean Tatar musical culture.

Keywords: Crimea, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Armenians, language, music, art, antroponymy

For citation: Zaatov I.A. Mutual influence of the Crimean Tatar and Crimean- Armenian cultures in the context of musical, lexical and antroponymic parallels. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2024, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 183–206. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2024.1.183-206 (In Russian)

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About the author: Ismet A. Zaatov – Dr. Philosophy (Art Criticism), Cand. Sci. (Arts), Leading Researcher of the Crimean Scientific Center, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7, Baturin Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); Senior Research Fellow of the Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar Philology and Culture of Crimean Ethnic Groups, Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University (8, Uchebnyy lane, Simferopol 295015, Russian Federation); zaatov@gmail.com