Elamur LocationsHnivan
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Гнівань.
English name
Hnivan — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Gnivan — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Hnivan’ — Ukrainian-based form retaining the final soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Gniewań — Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place.
- Hnivan' — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- Gnìvanʹ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Hnivanʹ — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Гнівань — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
- Gniewan — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Gniewań for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.
French name
Hnivan — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Gnivan — Russian-derived form listed with Hnivan in French reference material.
About
Hnivan is a town on the Southern Bug southwest of Vinnytsia. Its industrial history includes granite quarrying, sugar production and railway-related manufacturing.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q155330 · JSON
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