Elamur LocationsZarasai
A settlement in Lithuania.
English name
Zarasai — Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.
Other forms in use:
- Jeziorosy — Polish historical or community name recorded in regional references; English prose frequency unverified.
- Jeziorosa — Historical Polish map spelling explicitly quoted in English history.
- Novoalexandrovsk — Imperial Russian name used from 1836 until 1918 according to the checked history.
- Novoaleksandrovsk — Alternative English romanization of the imperial name, also printed in French history.
- Ežerėnai — Former Lithuanian official name used in 1919–1929; replaced by Zarasai in 1929.
- Ezherene — Yiddish-derived historical form explicitly quoted in English reference prose.
- Ezerenai — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Ežerėnai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.
French name
Zarasai — Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.
Other forms in use:
- Jeziorosy — Polish historical name explicitly quoted in the French locality reference.
- Jeziorosa — Historical name explicitly printed in French history and older map references.
- Novoaleksandrovsk — Former imperial name explicitly printed in French history for 1836–1918.
About
Zarasai is a town in northeastern Lithuania, surrounded by lakes near the Latvian border. It is a district centre with a long history as a market locality on routes across the eastern Baltic region.
Notes
Imperial Novoalexandrovsk/Novoaleksandrovsk 1836–1918; Lithuanian Ežerėnai 1919–1929; Zarasai adopted 1929. French text has inconsistent early chronology, omitted from description. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarasai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarasai.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q147750 · JSON
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