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# Navahrudak

A settlement in Belarus; local name Навагрудак.

## English name

**Navahrudak** — Established English Belarusian-based name; the same spelling results from BGN/PCGN 1979 and the 2007 national geographical romanization, superseded domestically in 2023.

Other forms in use:

- **Novogrudok** — Russian-based English name widely used in older histories.
- **Nowogródek** — Historical Polish name, common in English accounts of Mickiewicz and the Holocaust.
- **Nowogrodek** — Polish historical name without the acute accent.
- **Naugardukas** — Lithuanian name used in English Lithuanian historical writing.
- **Novardok** — Yiddish-derived name established in English writing on the Novardok yeshiva tradition.
- **Navaredok** — Yiddish-derived variant used in Jewish historical references.
- **Navahradak** — Belarusian alternative form based on Наваградак.
- **Новогрудок** — Russian original-script name.

## French name

**Navahroudak** — French Belarusian-based geographical name using ou for у; Polish Nowogródek remains familiar in French literary and historical writing.

Other forms in use:

- **Novogroudok** — Russian-based French geographical name.
- **Nowogródek** — Historical Polish name established in French writing on Mickiewicz and the Holocaust.
- **Nowogrodek** — French plain-text spelling of the Polish historical name.
- **Novardok** — Yiddish-derived name used in French accounts of the yeshiva tradition.
- **Navahrudak** — International spelling in French map references.

## About

Navahrudak is a historic town in Grodno Region in western Belarus. Its castle ruins and association with the poet Adam Mickiewicz reflect its place in Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish history.

## Notes

No birthplace claim is made for Mickiewicz: accounts differ between the town and nearby Zaosie. Main French form: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navahroudak . Input label 'Новогрудок' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local\_name is restored to the native-language form.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q278743](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278743) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/belarus/navahrudak/?format=json)


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