Elamur LocationsVyshhorod
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Вишгород.
English name
Vyshhorod — Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.
Other forms in use:
- Vyshgorod — Russian-based English spelling.
- Višgorod — ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage.
- Вишгород — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.
French name
Vychhorod — French geographical transcription, selected for recognizability in French references; normally used without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.
Other forms in use:
- Vyshhorod — International spelling also encountered in French texts and map references; the selected French form follows French transcription practice.
- Vychgorod — Russian-based French form.
About
Vyshhorod is a town just north of Kyiv beside the Dnipro and the Kyiv Reservoir. It was an important princely centre in medieval Rus and is associated with the cult of Saints Boris and Gleb.
Notes
The current Ukrainian spelling has hh in the national romanization because ш and г meet at that point. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1004257 · JSON
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