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# Biłgoraj

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Biłgoraj** — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.

Other forms in use:

- **Bilgoray** — Yiddish-derived English spelling in Jewish historical writing.
- **Bilgoraj** — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.

## French name

**Biłgoraj** — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

- **Bilgoray** — Yiddish-derived form relevant to French accounts of the Singer family and Jewish life in Poland.
- **Bilgoraj** — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.

## About

Biłgoraj is a town in Lublin Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, near the forests of the Roztocze region. It was known for sieve making and had a substantial Jewish community before the Holocaust.

## Notes

Input label 'Білгорай' is Ukrainian or indirect; local\_name gives the native spelling. Yiddish Bilgoray is documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%C5%82goraj .

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q319445](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319445) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/bilgoraj/?format=json)


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