LANGUAGE STRATUMS IN THE TOPONIMY OF THE CHAKAVIAN AND KAJKAVIAN AREA OF WEST CROATIA

In this report the area between Hrvatsko primorje and Istra (Croatian Northern Coast), Gorski kotar and Pokuplje (mainland regions of Croatia) are regarded. These regions are different in their geographic characteristics, but similar in their history because they were at the crossroads of main roads from the North to the South in this part of the world. The population changed in these regions, althogh differently in different regions. Those differences are shown in the toponims of the particular regions