Kopishcha
A settlement in Belarus; local name Копішча.
English name
Kopishcha — English rendering from Belarusian, chosen alongside the Russian-based and national-system forms supplied below.
Other forms in use:
- Kopishche — Russian-based form from Копище, widely used in accounts of Minsk’s suburbs.
- Kopišča — Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, endorsed by the UN in 2012 but superseded domestically in 2023.
- Копище — Russian original-script name.
- Копішча — Belarusian original-script name, supplied for quotations and bilingual source matching.
French name
Kopichtcha — Editorial French transcription of Belarusian Копішча using ch and chtch. No settled French name has been verified.
Other forms in use:
- Kopishcha — International Belarusian-based spelling usable in French maps.
About
Kopishcha is a village adjoining the north-eastern edge of Minsk in Belarus. New apartment districts, including Novaya Borovaya, have given it a strongly urban character.
Notes
Still described as a village in the consulted sources, despite its urban development. French main is an editorial transcription with ch and chtch, not an attested government form. https://nashaniva.com/398623 ; https://spadchyna.info/all/belarus/miensk-region/ . Input label 'Копище' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q6501893 · JSON
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