Elamur LocationsBeryslav
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Берислав.
English name
Beryslav — 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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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:
- Berislav — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Kizikermen — Historical name of the Ottoman fortress at this site; not a current name for the town.
- Kizi-Kermen — Hyphenated rendering of the Ottoman fortress name used in historical accounts.
- Kazikermen — Alternative historical spelling of the Ottoman fortress name, recorded in English historical accounts.
- Gazikermen — Turkish-based historical form of the fortress name, recorded in English accounts.
- Берислав — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Beryslav — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Berislav — Russian-based form encountered in French coverage and older references.
- Kizikermen — Fortress name relevant to French histories of the Ottoman frontier; not a general modern synonym.
About
Beryslav is a town on the right bank of the Dnipro in Kherson Oblast. It stands at a historic river crossing and preserves the memory of the Ottoman fortress of Kizikermen.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q829317 · JSON
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