Elamur LocationsHorodok
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Городок.
English name
Horodok — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.
Other forms in use:
- Gorodok — Russian-based spelling in older English reference works; ambiguous without a region. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- Gródek Jagielloński — Polish historical name, used in English accounts of Galicia.
- Grodek Jagiellonski — Diacritic-free form of the Polish historical name.
- Gródek — Polish short historical name.
- Horodok (Lviv Oblast) — English geographical disambiguation, not an additional official name.
- Городок — Ukrainian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym.
French name
Horodok — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Gródek Jagielloński — Historical Polish name used in French studies of Galicia.
- Grodek Jagiellonski — Accent-free form used in French indexes.
- Gorodok — Russian-mediated French historical form; specify the Lviv region.
About
Horodok is a town west of Lviv, beside ponds on the Vereshchytsia River. Its churches and former Franciscan complex reflect its long history in Galicia.
Notes
This is the Lviv Oblast Horodok, not the Khmelnytskyi Oblast town earlier in this batch.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q930449 · JSON
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