Elamur LocationsBashtanka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Баштанка.
English name
Bashtanka — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.
Other forms in use:
- Poltavka — Earlier name, replaced by Bashtanka in 1928.
- Bachtanka — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- Baštanka — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Баштанка — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Bachtanka — Attested French reference spelling; French ch renders ш.
Other forms in use:
- Bashtanka — International spelling also used in French; Bachtanka adapts sh to French ch.
- Poltavka — Earlier name, replaced in 1928; retained as a French historical search term.
About
Bashtanka is a town northeast of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. It serves the surrounding farming area and is associated with the local anti-White uprising during the civil war.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q572899 · JSON
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