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# Chashniki

A settlement in Belarus; local name Чашнікі.

## English name

**Chashniki** — Belarusian-based English reference form; Russian-based and dated national-system forms are listed separately where different.

Other forms in use:

- **Čašniki** — Belarusian geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, not a claim that domestic rules remained unchanged after 2023.
- **Czaśniki** — Polish historical name relevant to English military histories.
- **Czasniki** — Diacritic-free Polish spelling frequent in English accounts of the 1812 campaign.
- **Tchachniki** — French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not an asserted common English exonym.
- **Чашнікі** — Original Belarusian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English.

## French name

**Tchachniki** — French reference heading uses Tch for ч and ch for ш; historical military accounts may instead use the Polish-based Czasniki.

Other forms in use:

- **Čašniki** — Belarusian Latin spelling explicitly given in French references.
- **Czaśniki** — Polish historical spelling explicitly given in the French entry.
- **Czasniki** — Diacritic-free spelling useful in French Napoleonic histories; not a current French main.
- **Chashniki** — International spelling retained for French source matching; the French reference heading uses the adapted main above.
- **Casniki** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Čašniki for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## About

Chashniki is a town on the Ula River in Belarus's Vitebsk Region. Its name is familiar in military histories of the Livonian War and Napoleon's Russian campaign.

## Notes

Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 system labels are dated; Belarus changed its domestic rules in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chashniki ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchachniki.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q954421](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q954421) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/belarus/chashniki/?format=json)


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