Elamur LocationsHîncești
A settlement in Moldova.
English name
Hîncești — Current official Romanian Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Hâncești — Romanian spelling with â rather than the î retained in Moldova’s official place-name spelling.
- Hînceşti — Legacy Romanian typography with cedilla ş.
- Kotovsk — Soviet name, replaced by Hîncești in 1990.
- Kotovschi — Romanian rendering of the Soviet name, historical.
- Hincesti — Diacritic-free form of Hîncești.
- Gancheshty — Russian-based historical form from Ганчешты.
- Hancesti — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Hâncești for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.
French name
Hîncești — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Hâncești — Romanian â spelling also encountered in French texts; the Moldovan official place name retains î.
- Hînceşti — Legacy-cedilla typography in French references.
- Kotovsk — Soviet-era name for French historical retrieval, replaced in 1990.
- Kotovschi — Romanian version of the former name, found in French historical reference material.
- Hincesti — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Hîncești for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.
- Hancesti — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Hâncești for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.
About
Hîncești is a town southwest of Chișinău in central Moldova. The Manuc Bey estate is a major local landmark and a reminder of the area's nineteenth-century history.
Notes
Moldovan official spelling retains î in Hîncești; Hâncești is an orthographic variant, not a civic renaming. Kotovsk was replaced in 1990.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1141853 · JSON
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