Elamur LocationsMarijampolė
A settlement in Lithuania.
English name
Marijampolė — Official Lithuanian Latin-script name, retained with ė in edited English.
Other forms in use:
- Marijampole — Diacritic-free rendering of the Lithuanian name.
- Mariampol — Polish historical name, also used in older English geographical and Jewish historical sources.
- Mariampole — Older Latin-script rendering, found in English historical references.
- Kapsukas — Soviet-period official name, 1955–1989; the historical name was restored in 1989.
- Мариямполе — Russian Cyrillic rendering of the current name.
- Мариамполь — Older Russian Cyrillic name in imperial-period records.
French name
Marijampolė — Same Lithuanian form as in English; French geographical writing also uses the unaccented form and the former Kapsukas in historical contexts.
Other forms in use:
- Marijampole — French typography may omit the dot above Lithuanian ė.
- Mariampol — Historical Polish-derived form used in French accounts of the region.
- Mariampolé — French adaptation explicitly recorded in French geographical references; secondary to the modern Lithuanian spelling.
- Kapsukas — Soviet-period name used in French references for 1955–1989; no longer the official name.
About
Marijampolė is a city on the Šešupė in southwestern Lithuania. It is an important urban centre of the Suvalkija region and a centre of Lithuania’s national cultural revival.
Notes
Marijampolė was renamed Kapsukas in 1955 and regained its historical name in 1989. Historical-language spellings vary; no present-day French government preference is claimed.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1351046 · JSON
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