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Yedoma, Vologda Oblast

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Yedoma
Едома
Selo
Yedoma is located in Vologda Oblast
Yedoma
Yedoma
Yedoma is located in Russia
Yedoma
Yedoma
Coordinates: 59°08′N 38°19′E / 59.133°N 38.317°E / 59.133; 38.317[1]
CountryRussia
RegionVologda Oblast
DistrictSheksninsky District
Time zoneUTC+3:00

Edoma (Russian: Едома) is a rural locality (a selo) in Zheleznodorozhnoye Rural Settlement, Sheksninsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002.[2]

History

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One of the ancient villages of the region. A charter of 1477 reports that in the middle of the 15th century. The village of Edoma in Ostafevskaya Slobodka was granted to the Moscow Simonov Monastery by the Belozersk prince Roman Ivanovich (ASEI, II, No. 391). In the 17th century this is the center of the Edoma volost (PK Vol 1678, 8).[3]

Etymology of the name

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The name is given by the location of the village. The word edoma, borrowed from the finno-ugric languages, in the old russian language had the meaning “steep bank”, “any land distant from the village”, “swampy land”, “hilly land” (Sl RJ XI – XVII, V, 34 – 35). In karelian eda-, vepsian ey-, eda – 'distant', vepsian ta, karelian top, tia – 'earth, field' (Subbotina, 49).[3]

Geography

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Yedoma is located 18 km southwest of Sheksna (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maurino is the nearest rural locality.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Карта села Едомы Шекснинский района Вологодской области с улицами и номерами домов". mapdata.ru.
  2. ^ Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
  3. ^ a b "Чайкина Ю. И. Географические названия Вологодской области. Топонимический словарь(2)". www.booksite.ru. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  4. ^ "Маршрут: поселок Шексна (Шекснинский район, Вологодская область) - село Едома (Шекснинский район, Вологодская область): расстояние и время в пути на карте - 20 км, 26 минут".
  5. ^ "Обсуждение:Едома (ГКГН № 0465859) — Verum". verum.wiki.