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# Novhorod-Siverskyi

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Новгород-Сіверський.

## English name

**Novhorod-Siverskyi** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Novgorod-Seversky** — Established Russian-based English spelling in historical writing.
- **Novgorod-Severskiy** — Russian-based geographical romanization, retaining iy for final ий.
- **Novgorod-Severski** — French historical rendering of the Russian name.
- **Novhorod-Sivers’kyy** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; a standard-derived retrieval spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence.
- **Novhorod-Sivers'kyy** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 retrieval form; not an additional official name.
- **Novgorod-Sìversʹkij** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence.
- **Novhorod-Siversʹkyĭ** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence.
- **Новгород-Сіверський** — Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles.

## French name

**Novhorod-Siverskyï** — French reference spelling, using final ï in the adjective. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.

Other forms in use:

- **Novgorod-Seversky** — Russian-based international spelling; French commonly uses Novgorod-Severski.
- **Novgorod-Severski** — Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French reference entry.
- **Novhorod-Siverskyi** — International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance.

## About

Novhorod-Siverskyi is a historic town on the Desna River in northern Chernihiv Oblast. It was a centre of a medieval principality and is closely associated with The Tale of Igor's Campaign.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q147758](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147758) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/novhorod-siverskyi/?format=json)


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