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# Bershad

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Бершадь.

## English name

**Bershad** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Bershad’** — English romanization retaining a mark for the final Ukrainian soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Bershad'** — Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign spelling.
- **Berszad** — Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place.
- **Berchad** — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- **Beršadʹ** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Bershadʹ** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Бершадь** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

**Berchad** — Attested French reference spelling; French ch renders ш.

Other forms in use:

- **Bershad** — International spelling found alongside the adapted French spelling Berchad.
- **Berszad** — Polish historical form relevant to French genealogical references; French frequency unverified.

## About

Bershad is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast in the historic Podolia region of Ukraine. It was an important centre of Jewish religious life and weaving, and its wartime ghetto forms a painful part of its history.

## Notes

Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q827229](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827229) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/bershad/?format=json)


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