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# Kotelva

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Котельва.

## English name

**Kotelva** — 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:

- **Kotel’va** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- **Kotel'va** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- **Kotelʹva** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. 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.
- **Котельва** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

**Kotelva** — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.

## About

Kotelva is a settlement on a river of the same name in northeastern Poltava Oblast. Its Holy Trinity Church is a local landmark, and the surrounding area has a long Cossack and archaeological history.

## Notes

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

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1958270](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1958270) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/kotelva/?format=json)


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