Elamur LocationsBilohirsk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Білогірськ.
English name
Bilohirsk — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Belogorsk — Russian name used in Soviet-era English sources and by the Russian occupation authorities.
- Karasubazar — Former name, replaced in 1944; retained in English Crimean and Jewish history.
- Qarasuvbazar — Crimean Tatar Latin name, used in cultural and historical writing.
- Karasu-Bazar — Hyphenated historical international spelling.
- Karassubazar — Historical doubled-s spelling used in English travel and geographical writing.
- Bìlogìrsʹk — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- Bilohirs’k — BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- Bilohirsʹk — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; standard-derived catalogue form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- Білогірськ — Ukrainian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym.
- Bilohirs'k — ASCII apostrophe version of the BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian retrieval spelling; not an additional official name.
French name
Bilohirsk — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Belogorsk — Russian-based name also used in French reference works on Crimea.
- Karassoubazar — Older French spelling of the former town name, relevant to travel and historical geography.
- Karasubazar — International historical form retained in French scholarship.
- Qarasuvbazar — Crimean Tatar form quoted in French discussions of Crimean heritage.
About
Bilohirsk is a town in inland Crimea on the Biiuk-Karasu River. It was an important Crimean Tatar market town and lies near the striking White Rock, also called Aq Qaya.
Notes
UA follows internationally recognized sovereignty. Renamed from Karasubazar in 1944; Russian occupation does not change the country code.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q863330 · JSON
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