Elamur LocationsOvidiopol
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Овідіополь.
English name
Ovidiopol — 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:
- Ovidiopol’ — English form retaining the final Ukrainian soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- Ovidiopol' — Plain-apostrophe typography of the soft-sign form.
- Hacıdere — Ottoman Turkish historical name of the settlement, quoted in English histories.
- Adzhider — Russian-mediated spelling of the earlier Ottoman name.
- Ovìdìopolʹ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Ovidiopolʹ — 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.
- Овідіополь — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Ovidiopol — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
About
Ovidiopol is a settlement on the eastern shore of the Dniester estuary in Odesa Oblast. Its name commemorates the Roman poet Ovid, although his place of exile was at Tomis in present-day Romania.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1786102 · JSON
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