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# Zbarazh

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Збараж.

## English name

**Zbarazh** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The BGN/PCGN 1965 result is identical.

Other forms in use:

- **Zbaraż** — Polish historical name, used in English histories of the Commonwealth and the siege.
- **Zbaraz** — Diacritic-free version of the Polish historical name.
- **Zbarizh** — Yiddish romanization used in English Jewish historical writing.
- **Zbarezh** — Yiddish-derived variant recorded in English name indexes.
- **Sbarasch** — German historical name recorded in English name inventories.
- **Zbaraž** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence.
- **Zbaraz͡h** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence.
- **Збараж** — Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles.

## French name

**Zbaraj** — French reference spelling, using final j for the sound written zh in English. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.

Other forms in use:

- **Zbaraż** — Polish historical name explicitly given in the French entry and relevant to French accounts of the siege.
- **Zbaraz** — Diacritic-free Polish historical search form; not the preferred French spelling.
- **Zbarazh** — International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance.

## About

Zbarazh is a town northeast of Ternopil in western Ukraine. Its castle and the siege described in Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword are central to its historical reputation.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1019899](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1019899) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/zbarazh/?format=json)


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