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# Ștefan Vodă

A settlement in Moldova.

## English name

**Ștefan Vodă** — Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

- **Ştefan Vodă** — Legacy Romanian typography with cedilla Ş instead of comma-below Ș.
- **Suvorov** — Soviet name replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990.
- **Chizil** — Earlier name printed in English history; not a current civic name.
- **Kizil** — Variant historical spelling explicitly quoted in English history.
- **Stefan Voda** — Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified.

## French name

**Ștefan Vodă** — Same as in English; no distinct established French prose form verified.

Other forms in use:

- **Ştefan Vodă** — Legacy cedilla typography for French catalogue retrieval; modern heading uses Romanian comma-below Ș.
- **Stefan Voda** — Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for French indexing; independent prose frequency unverified.

## About

Ștefan Vodă is a town in southeastern Moldova and the centre of its namesake district. Its present name honours the Moldavian ruler Stephen the Great.

## Notes

Suvorov replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990 according to English locality history. No French prose adoption date or ministry preference verified. Independent French locality-prose evidence is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ștefan\_Vodă.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1982983](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1982983) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/moldova/stefan-voda/?format=json)


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