Shulanda

[authari]

Hello friends
Last year we made a wide archeological survey in neighborhood of
Mangup and Eski-kermen (South-Western Crimea) as a part of RGZM
project and found some monuments of Migrations period. Some of it is
situated near Ternovka village.
There is a cluster of toponimics with root "Shul": old name of
Ternovka is Shuli (or Eski-Shul; Eski - tatarian old), Shuldan -
byzantinian cave monastery and Shulanda.
Shul is not translateble from tatarian.I asked 84-year old local
tatarian for translation and he said that it means school 
(not surprising - he worked as a driver for geman officer at
WWII),nobody can translate it now.
Local specialists of toponimics (Markevich, Bel'ansky) said that it
could not be translated from turcic languages. More than that names of
sites in Crimea ending -anda, -inda, -unda seem like ancient
(Shulanda, Oreanda, Marsanda(later Massandra), Avinda(Avunda).
Could be Shul-, Shulanda gothic words? (Shuli valley is core Crimean
gothic area). Do you have gothic etimology for it?
Google given me only a mess. Is it a name?
Thanks in advance.
Best wishes
PS 
Coords of Shulanda by Google Earth 44°36'19.90"N   33°42'53.27"E

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