Horodenka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Городенка.
English name
Horodenka — 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:
- Gorodenka — Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified.
- Horodenke — Yiddish-derived name used in English Jewish historical and genealogical references.
- Horodence — Historical Polish variant explicitly recorded in English reference material.
- Городенка — Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English.
French name
Horodenka — Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage.
Other forms in use:
- Gorodenka — Russian-derived spelling explicitly recorded in French reference usage; not a change to the Ukrainian official name.
About
Horodenka is a small city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is known for its eighteenth-century Church of the Immaculate Conception and its sculptural decoration.
Notes
System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horodenka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horodenka.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q157520 · JSON
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