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# Ivanava

A settlement in Belarus; local name Іванава.

## English name

**Ivanava** — Belarusian official-language name in Latin transcription; it also agrees with the 2007 geographical system.

Other forms in use:

- **Ivanovo** — Russian-based official-language form used in many English maps.
- **Janów Poleski** — Former Polish name used in English histories of Polesia.
- **Janow Poleski** — Unaccented Polish historical form.
- **Yanov** — Russian-mediated rendering of the older Janów name.
- **Janów** — Historical short name, ambiguous without the Polesian context.
- **Іванава** — Belarusian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym.

## French name

**Ivanava** — Same as in English; Ivanava is the Belarusian-based heading in French reference usage.

Other forms in use:

- **Ivanovo** — Russian-based alternative retained in French reference works.
- **Janów Poleski** — Polish historical name in French writing about Polesia and saint André Bobola.
- **Janow Poleski** — Accent-free form of the Polish historical name.

## About

Ivanava is a town in Brest Region in southwestern Belarus. Its older identity as Janów Poleski connects it with the history of Polesia and with the martyr Andrew Bobola.

## Notes

The present name dates from the Soviet period; an exact legal renaming date is not asserted. Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local\_name gives the native spelling. The dated 2007/UN 2012 geographical system is distinguished from Belarus’s replacement domestic rules of 2023.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q956207](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956207) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/belarus/ivanava/?format=json)


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