Elamur LocationsBiłgoraj
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Biłgoraj — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Bilgoray — Yiddish-derived English spelling in Jewish historical writing.
- Bilgoraj — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
French name
Biłgoraj — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Bilgoray — Yiddish-derived form relevant to French accounts of the Singer family and Jewish life in Poland.
- Bilgoraj — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
About
Biłgoraj is a town in Lublin Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, near the forests of the Roztocze region. It was known for sieve making and had a substantial Jewish community before the Holocaust.
Notes
Input label 'Білгорай' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Yiddish Bilgoray is documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%C5%82goraj .
Identifiers: Wikidata Q319445 · JSON
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