Elamur LocationsIvanava
A settlement in Belarus; local name Іванава.
English name
Ivanava — Belarusian official-language name in Latin transcription; it also agrees with the 2007 geographical system.
Other forms in use:
- Ivanovo — Russian-based official-language form used in many English maps.
- Janów Poleski — Former Polish name used in English histories of Polesia.
- Janow Poleski — Unaccented Polish historical form.
- Yanov — Russian-mediated rendering of the older Janów name.
- Janów — Historical short name, ambiguous without the Polesian context.
- Іванава — Belarusian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym.
French name
Ivanava — Same as in English; Ivanava is the Belarusian-based heading in French reference usage.
Other forms in use:
- Ivanovo — Russian-based alternative retained in French reference works.
- Janów Poleski — Polish historical name in French writing about Polesia and saint André Bobola.
- Janow Poleski — Accent-free form of the Polish historical name.
About
Ivanava is a town in Brest Region in southwestern Belarus. Its older identity as Janów Poleski connects it with the history of Polesia and with the martyr Andrew Bobola.
Notes
The present name dates from the Soviet period; an exact legal renaming date is not asserted. Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. The dated 2007/UN 2012 geographical system is distinguished from Belarus’s replacement domestic rules of 2023.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q956207 · JSON
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