Elamur LocationsLokhvytsia
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Лохвиця.
English name
Lokhvytsia — 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:
- Lokhvitsa — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Lokhvytsya — Older Ukrainian-based English spelling using 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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- Lohvicâ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Lokhvyt͡si͡a — 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.
- Лохвиця — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Lokhvytsia — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Lokhvitsa — Russian-based form given in French reference material.
About
Lokhvytsia is a town on the Lokhvytsia River in Poltava Oblast. Its older centre reflects a history as a Cossack administrative and trading settlement.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q269512 · JSON
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