Elamur LocationsBuchach
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Бучач.
English name
Buchach — 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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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:
- Buczacz — Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place.
- Boutchatch — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- Bučač — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Бучач — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Boutchatch — Attested French reference spelling; ou and tch adapt the Ukrainian consonants and vowel to French spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Buczacz — Polish name used in French historical and literary writing, notably about Agnon.
- Buchach — International Ukrainian form found in French source titles.
- Butschatsch — German historical form, encountered in French writing on Austrian Galicia.
About
Buchach is a town on the Strypa in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Its castle ruins, ornate town hall and association with the writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon reflect its layered Galician history.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q849109 · JSON
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