Elamur LocationsDebaltseve
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Дебальцеве.
English name
Debaltseve — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.
Other forms in use:
- Debaltsevo — Russian-based spelling common in English accounts of the 2015 battle.
- Debal’tseve — Ukrainian-based transliteration retaining the medial soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form.
- Debal'tseve — Plain-apostrophe form of the soft-sign-marked spelling.
- Debalʹceve — ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage.
- Дебальцеве — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
- Debalʹt͡seve — ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym.
French name
Debaltseve — Same spelling as in English; used in French reference writing. Le Monde also used Debaltsevo in its 2015 reporting.
Other forms in use:
- Debaltsevo — Russian-based name used by Le Monde in its 2015 coverage of the battle.
- Debaltsevé — French phonetic adaptation with final é, found in geographical transcription.
About
Debaltseve is a city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. It grew around a railway junction and became the focus of a major battle during the war in the Donbas.
Notes
French reference: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debaltseve ; contemporary press alternative: https://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/02/19/comment-kiev-a-perdu-debaltsevo_4579537_3214.html . Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2371760 · JSON
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