Ștefan Vodă
A settlement in Moldova.
English name
Ștefan Vodă — Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.
Other forms in use:
- Ştefan Vodă — Legacy Romanian typography with cedilla Ş instead of comma-below Ș.
- Suvorov — Soviet name replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990.
- Chizil — Earlier name printed in English history; not a current civic name.
- Kizil — Variant historical spelling explicitly quoted in English history.
- Stefan Voda — Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified.
French name
Ștefan Vodă — Same as in English; no distinct established French prose form verified.
Other forms in use:
- Ştefan Vodă — Legacy cedilla typography for French catalogue retrieval; modern heading uses Romanian comma-below Ș.
- Stefan Voda — Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for French indexing; independent prose frequency unverified.
About
Ștefan Vodă is a town in southeastern Moldova and the centre of its namesake district. Its present name honours the Moldavian ruler Stephen the Great.
Notes
Suvorov replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990 according to English locality history. No French prose adoption date or ministry preference verified. Independent French locality-prose evidence is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ștefan_Vodă.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1982983 · JSON
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