Elamur LocationsPuławy
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Puławy — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Pulawy — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Nowa Aleksandria — Official name under Russian imperial rule, 1846–1918; Polish rendering of New Alexandria.
- Novo-Aleksandriya — Russian-based rendering of the imperial-period name, used in older English geographical sources.
French name
Puławy — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Pulawy — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Nouvelle-Alexandrie — Translated imperial-period name in French historical geography; replaced by Puławy in 1918.
- Nowa Aleksandria — Polish form of the imperial-period name, quoted in French historical works.
About
Puławy is a town on the Vistula in Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland. The Czartoryski palace and park recall its role as a centre of Polish cultural life.
Notes
Imperial New Alexandria is unrelated to Alexandria in Egypt.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q320007 · JSON
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