title: Given names in Polish Tatars
abstract: Tatar community in Poland today is an ethnic minority of 1828 people who lived in the northeast of the country. Polish Tatars lived on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since the end of the fourteenth century. Their ancestors were immigrants or refugees from the Golden Horde and Crimea. Tatar communitiy in Poland lost knowledge of their mother tongue, but remained faithful to the Islam religion. Tatars give names to their children from different sources, like Islam, Tatar, Christian,
journal: Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University)