Sokal

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Сокаль.

English name

Sokal — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.

Other forms in use:

• Sokalʹ — Ukrainian scholarly transliteration marking the final soft sign. ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym.
• Sokal' — Plain-apostrophe form marking the final soft sign.
• Сокаль — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
• Sokal’ — BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form.

French name

Sokal — Same as in English; editorial choice for French reference use. A place-specific official French recommendation has not been established.

About

Sokal is a town on the Western Bug in northern Lviv Oblast. Its old churches and former Bernardine monastery reflect its history on the borderlands of Galicia and Volhynia.

Notes

The former Bernardine monastery lies across the river in the historic Sokal area, now associated with Zhvirka. The description concerns the wider historic town, not a claim that all monuments lie within its present limits. Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .

Identifiers: Wikidata Q1000927 · JSON

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