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# Bilohirsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Білогірськ.

## English name

**Bilohirsk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Belogorsk** — Russian name used in Soviet-era English sources and by the Russian occupation authorities.
- **Karasubazar** — Former name, replaced in 1944; retained in English Crimean and Jewish history.
- **Qarasuvbazar** — Crimean Tatar Latin name, used in cultural and historical writing.
- **Karasu-Bazar** — Hyphenated historical international spelling.
- **Karassubazar** — Historical doubled-s spelling used in English travel and geographical writing.
- **Bìlogìrsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- **Bilohirs’k** — BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- **Bilohirsʹk** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; standard-derived catalogue form, with medium confidence in textual use.
- **Білогірськ** — Ukrainian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym.
- **Bilohirs'k** — ASCII apostrophe version of the BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian retrieval spelling; not an additional official name.

## French name

**Bilohirsk** — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

- **Belogorsk** — Russian-based name also used in French reference works on Crimea.
- **Karassoubazar** — Older French spelling of the former town name, relevant to travel and historical geography.
- **Karasubazar** — International historical form retained in French scholarship.
- **Qarasuvbazar** — Crimean Tatar form quoted in French discussions of Crimean heritage.

## About

Bilohirsk is a town in inland Crimea on the Biiuk-Karasu River. It was an important Crimean Tatar market town and lies near the striking White Rock, also called Aq Qaya.

## Notes

UA follows internationally recognized sovereignty. Renamed from Karasubazar in 1944; Russian occupation does not change the country code.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q863330](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863330) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/bilohirsk/?format=json)


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