Balvi

A settlement in Latvia.

English name

Balvi — Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

Bolvi — Latgalian local name explicitly quoted in English reference prose.
Bolwen — German historical name indexed in English naming data.
Bołowsk — Polish historical name explicitly quoted in English prose.
Bolowsk — Diacritic-free form of Bołowsk for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified.

Balvi — Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.

Other forms in use:

Bolwen — German historical name recorded in French naming data; French prose frequency unverified.
Bolvi — Latgalian name recorded in French naming data; not the current French heading.

Balvi is a town in northeastern Latvia, in the Latgale region. It lies beside Lake Balvi and serves as the centre of the surrounding municipality.

Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvi ; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218402 ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvi.