Elamur LocationsAntratsyt
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Антрацит.
English name
Antratsyt — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965.
Other forms in use:
- Antratsit — Russian-based English spelling; also resembles the Russian word for anthracite.
- Bokovo-Antratsit — Former Russian-based city name before the shorter name was adopted in 1962.
- Antracit — ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Antrat͡syt — ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Антрацит — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.
French name
Antratsyt — Ukrainian-based spelling used in French geographical references; the Russian-based variant remains recognizable.
Other forms in use:
- Antratsit — Russian-based form also encountered in French writing on the Donbas.
- Bokovo-Antratsit — Former name in Russian transcription, relevant in French accounts of the period before 1962.
About
Antratsyt is a coal-mining city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its name refers to anthracite, the hard coal associated with this part of the Donbas.
Notes
The 1962 change shortened the earlier Bokovo-Antratsyt name; the mining name is not a recent decommunization renaming.
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