Horodnia
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Городня.
English name
Horodnia — 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:
- Gorodnya — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Horodnya — Older Ukrainian-based spelling with ya for я. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- Gorodnâ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Horodni͡a — 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.
- Городня — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Horodnia — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Gorodnia — Russian-based French form recorded alongside Horodnia.
About
Horodnia is a town north of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine. It is a local administrative and service centre in a landscape of forests and farmland near the Belarusian border.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1020058 · JSON
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