Elamur LocationsStarobilsk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Старобільськ.
English name
Starobilsk — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Starobil’s’k — Older Ukrainian transcription preserving both soft signs. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form.
- Starobil's'k — ASCII version of the soft-sign transcription.
- Starobelsk — Russian-based form, especially common in histories of Polish prisoners of war.
- Starobielsk — Polish spelling widely used in English accounts of the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.
- Starobìlʹsʹk — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym.
- Starobilʹsʹk — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym.
French name
Starobilsk — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Starobielsk — Polish historical spelling familiar in French accounts of Polish prisoners and the Katyn massacres.
- Starobelsk — Russian-based form also found in French historical accounts.
About
Starobilsk is a town on the Aidar River in northern Luhansk Oblast. Its monastery and market-town past are important landmarks in the history of the surrounding steppe region.
Notes
The Polish historical name is relevant to the prisoner-of-war camp; it does not indicate a current Polish-language official name.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q987345 · JSON
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