Berehove
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Берегове.
English name
Berehove — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.
Other forms in use:
- Beregovo — Russian-based name familiar in older English references.
- Beregszász — Hungarian name used in English writing about the region and its Hungarian community.
- Beregszasz — Hungarian form without diacritics.
- Bergsaß — Historical German designation, mainly an archival search form.
- Beregove — ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage.
- Берегове — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
- Berehovo — Czech and Slovak name used in English accounts of interwar Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
- Berehowo — Polish historical name in English genealogical indexes.
- Beregsaz — Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish history and genealogy.
- Sächsisch-Bereg — Historical German name listed in English Jewish genealogical references.
- Berekhovo — Historical spelling listed in English Jewish genealogical references.
French name
Berehove — Same as in English; editorial choice for French reference use. A place-specific official French recommendation has not been established.
Other forms in use:
- Beregovo — Russian-based form in French geographical references.
- Beregszász — Hungarian name used in French accounts of Transcarpathian history.
- Beregszasz — Unaccented form of the Hungarian name.
- Berehovo — Czech and Slovak name quoted in French references to the town’s interwar Czechoslovak period.
- Beregsaz — Yiddish-derived name quoted in French geographical references for Jewish historical context.
- Bergsaß — German historical name quoted in French geographical references, not an ordinary current French exonym.
About
Berehove is a town in Zakarpattia Oblast near the Hungarian border. It is an important centre of Hungarian cultural life in Ukraine and is known for thermal springs.
Notes
Hungarian Beregszász is a living local-language name, not solely a historical exonym. Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf . Historical forms: https://www.jewishgen.org/sub-carpathia/GEO_town.asp?id=1035365 ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berehove .
Identifiers: Wikidata Q146497 · JSON
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