Elamur LocationsBershad
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Бершадь.
English name
Bershad — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Bershad’ — English romanization retaining a mark for the final Ukrainian soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Bershad' — Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign spelling.
- Berszad — Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place.
- Berchad — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- Beršadʹ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Bershadʹ — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Бершадь — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Berchad — Attested French reference spelling; French ch renders ш.
Other forms in use:
- Bershad — International spelling found alongside the adapted French spelling Berchad.
- Berszad — Polish historical form relevant to French genealogical references; French frequency unverified.
About
Bershad is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast in the historic Podolia region of Ukraine. It was an important centre of Jewish religious life and weaving, and its wartime ghetto forms a painful part of its history.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q827229 · JSON
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