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# Debaltseve

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Дебальцеве.

## English name

**Debaltseve** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.

Other forms in use:

- **Debaltsevo** — Russian-based spelling common in English accounts of the 2015 battle.
- **Debal’tseve** — Ukrainian-based transliteration retaining the medial soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form.
- **Debal'tseve** — Plain-apostrophe form of the soft-sign-marked spelling.
- **Debalʹceve** — ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage.
- **Дебальцеве** — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
- **Debalʹt͡seve** — ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym.

## French name

**Debaltseve** — Same spelling as in English; used in French reference writing. Le Monde also used Debaltsevo in its 2015 reporting.

Other forms in use:

- **Debaltsevo** — Russian-based name used by Le Monde in its 2015 coverage of the battle.
- **Debaltsevé** — French phonetic adaptation with final é, found in geographical transcription.

## About

Debaltseve is a city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. It grew around a railway junction and became the focus of a major battle during the war in the Donbas.

## Notes

French reference: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debaltseve ; contemporary press alternative: https://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/02/19/comment-kiev-a-perdu-debaltsevo\_4579537\_3214.html . Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3\_0/rom2\_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q2371760](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2371760) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/debaltseve/?format=json)


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