Elamur LocationsKhotyn
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Хотин.
English name
Khotyn — 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:
- Hotin — Romanian historical name used in English accounts of Bessarabia. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified.
- Chocim — Polish historical name used in English histories of the battles at the fortress.
- Khotin — Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming.
- Chotyn — Historical Polish/German-mediated Latin spelling used in English references.
- Хотин — Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English.
French name
Khotyn — Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage.
Other forms in use:
- Khotine — Older Russian-derived French form with final e, particularly in historical writing.
- Chocim — Polish form used in French histories of the fortress and its battles.
- Hotin — Romanian historical name used in French accounts of Bessarabia.
About
Khotyn is a small city on the Dniester in Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Its fortress is associated with major battles involving the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.
Notes
Hotin and Chocim remain relevant in English and French historical writing; Khotyn is the current Ukrainian national form. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotyn ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotyn. Some reference requests failed during research; surviving checks and unresolved usage limitations are distinguished above.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q45883 · JSON
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