Zbarazh
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Збараж.
English name
Zbarazh — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The BGN/PCGN 1965 result is identical.
Other forms in use:
- Zbaraż — Polish historical name, used in English histories of the Commonwealth and the siege.
- Zbaraz — Diacritic-free version of the Polish historical name.
- Zbarizh — Yiddish romanization used in English Jewish historical writing.
- Zbarezh — Yiddish-derived variant recorded in English name indexes.
- Sbarasch — German historical name recorded in English name inventories.
- Zbaraž — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence.
- Zbaraz͡h — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence.
- Збараж — Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles.
French name
Zbaraj — French reference spelling, using final j for the sound written zh in English. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.
Other forms in use:
- Zbaraż — Polish historical name explicitly given in the French entry and relevant to French accounts of the siege.
- Zbaraz — Diacritic-free Polish historical search form; not the preferred French spelling.
- Zbarazh — International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance.
About
Zbarazh is a town northeast of Ternopil in western Ukraine. Its castle and the siege described in Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword are central to its historical reputation.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1019899 · JSON
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