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# Ovidiopol

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Овідіополь.

## English name

**Ovidiopol** — 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:

- **Ovidiopol’** — English form retaining 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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- **Ovidiopol'** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the soft-sign form.
- **Hacıdere** — Ottoman Turkish historical name of the settlement, quoted in English histories.
- **Adzhider** — Russian-mediated spelling of the earlier Ottoman name.
- **Ovìdìopolʹ** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Ovidiopolʹ** — 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.
- **Овідіополь** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

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

## About

Ovidiopol is a settlement on the eastern shore of the Dniester estuary in Odesa Oblast. Its name commemorates the Roman poet Ovid, although his place of exile was at Tomis in present-day Romania.

## Notes

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

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1786102](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1786102) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/ovidiopol/?format=json)


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