Elamur LocationsVoronizh
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Вороніж.
English name
Voronizh — Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. Also identical to BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965).
Other forms in use:
- Voronezh — Russian-based name of this Ukrainian settlement; highly ambiguous with the much larger Russian city.
- Woroneż — Polish spelling quoted in English historical references.
- Voronij — French reference spelling for matching French titles cited in English; not a claimed common English exonym.
- Voronìž — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified.
- Voroniz͡h — ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified.
- Вороніж — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English.
- Woronez — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Woroneż for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
French name
Voronij — French geographical reference spelling, using French transcription conventions.
Other forms in use:
- Voronej — Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French locality reference; retained for older French-source matching.
- Voronizh — International spelling for matching Ukrainian or English source titles in French texts; the adapted French heading is given above.
About
Voronizh is a settlement near Shostka in northern Ukraine's Sumy Oblast. It was the birthplace of the writer and translator Panteleimon Kulish.
Notes
Voronezh here is the Russian form of Ukrainian Voronizh, not the city in Russia. Polish source titles vary between Woroniż and Woroneż; this is not evidence of a recent municipal renaming. Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronizh ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronij ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вороніж ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вароніж ; https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronij.
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