Elamur LocationsBerezhany
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Бережани.
English name
Berezhany — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string.
Other forms in use:
- Brzeżany — Polish historical name widely used in English accounts of Galicia and Jewish history.
- Brzezany — Diacritic-free Polish historical spelling.
- Berezhan — Jewish historical name used in English memorial and genealogical writing.
- Berežani — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym.
- Berez͡hany — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym.
French name
Berejany — French reference spelling, adapted to French transcription conventions; usage is not uniform across publishers.
Other forms in use:
- Brzeżany — Polish historical name used in French accounts of Galicia and interwar Poland.
- Brzezany — Accent-free Polish spelling common in older French print.
- Berezhany — International Ukrainian spelling used by French texts retaining Ukrainian name forms.
About
Berezhany is a town in Ternopil Oblast on the Zolota Lypa River. Its castle and religious buildings reflect its past as a regional centre of eastern Galicia.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q793424 · JSON
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