Elamur LocationsNavahrudak
A settlement in Belarus; local name Навагрудак.
English name
Navahrudak — Established English Belarusian-based name; the same spelling results from BGN/PCGN 1979 and the 2007 national geographical romanization, superseded domestically in 2023.
Other forms in use:
- Novogrudok — Russian-based English name widely used in older histories.
- Nowogródek — Historical Polish name, common in English accounts of Mickiewicz and the Holocaust.
- Nowogrodek — Polish historical name without the acute accent.
- Naugardukas — Lithuanian name used in English Lithuanian historical writing.
- Novardok — Yiddish-derived name established in English writing on the Novardok yeshiva tradition.
- Navaredok — Yiddish-derived variant used in Jewish historical references.
- Navahradak — Belarusian alternative form based on Наваградак.
- Новогрудок — Russian original-script name.
French name
Navahroudak — French Belarusian-based geographical name using ou for у; Polish Nowogródek remains familiar in French literary and historical writing.
Other forms in use:
- Novogroudok — Russian-based French geographical name.
- Nowogródek — Historical Polish name established in French writing on Mickiewicz and the Holocaust.
- Nowogrodek — French plain-text spelling of the Polish historical name.
- Novardok — Yiddish-derived name used in French accounts of the yeshiva tradition.
- Navahrudak — International spelling in French map references.
About
Navahrudak is a historic town in Grodno Region in western Belarus. Its castle ruins and association with the poet Adam Mickiewicz reflect its place in Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish history.
Notes
No birthplace claim is made for Mickiewicz: accounts differ between the town and nearby Zaosie. Main French form: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navahroudak . Input label 'Новогрудок' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q278743 · JSON
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