Elamur LocationsBoryslav
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Борислав.
English name
Boryslav — Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.
Other forms in use:
- Borysław — Historical Polish name used in English histories and family records.
- Borislav — Russian-based spelling encountered in older English maps, reporting and reference works; not the selected Ukrainian-based form. The same spelling also results from ISO 9:1995 applied to Ukrainian; that equivalence does not establish additional usage.
- Boryslaw — Polish historical spelling without the stroke on ł, common in English oil-industry and genealogical sources.
- Борислав — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.
French name
Boryslav — Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.
Other forms in use:
- Borysław — Polish historical name used in French writing about Galician petroleum.
- Borislav — Older Russian-mediated spelling in French reference works.
- Boryslaw — Plain-letter version of the Polish historical form.
About
Boryslav is a city in Lviv Oblast at the edge of the Ukrainian Carpathians. It became a major centre of the Galician oil and ozokerite industries.
Notes
Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q157525 · JSON
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