Elamur LocationsKhust
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Хуст.
English name
Khust — Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.
Other forms in use:
- Huszt — Hungarian historical name common in English accounts of Carpathian Ruthenia.
- Chust — Czech, Slovak and historical Polish form used in English histories.
- Hust — Older English form without the initial kh. The same spelling also results from ISO 9:1995 applied to Ukrainian; that equivalence does not establish additional usage.
- Хуст — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.
French name
Khoust — French geographical transcription, selected for recognizability in French references; normally used without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.
Other forms in use:
- Khust — International spelling also encountered in French texts and map references; the selected French form follows French transcription practice.
- Huszt — Hungarian historical name used in French Central European history.
- Chust — Czechoslovak-period and historical form in French references.
About
Khust is a town in Zakarpattia Oblast, near the meeting of the Rika and Tysa rivers. Ruins of a hilltop castle overlook the town and the surrounding valley.
Notes
The Hungarian form is not a recent official renaming. Khust was a political centre of Carpatho-Ukraine. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q146469 · JSON
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