Talk:List of renamed cities in Ukraine

Old names vs. names in other languages

It's hard to draw the line between the previous city names vs. names in different languages. But I would rather keep these two per info in the provided links, which indicates that the cities were rather renamed:

• Tarnopol → Ternopil (1934) --- per [1]
• Lemberg → Lviv (1918; Polish:Lwow, Russian:Lvov) --- per [2]

MapLover 03:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Ternopil and Lviv where not renamed. We simply started to use a Ukrainian name instead of a foreign one. In German langiage they still Lemberg because this the German version of the same name. Similarly in the Polish language they still write Tarnopol. These were no more renamed than Cernăuţi's being "renamed" to Chernivtsi. Most cities' names sound different in different language. This has nothing to do with an actual renaming, like in the case of Yekaterinoslav. --Irpen 20:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Scope

The possibilities for inclusion are nearly endless, but I think we should limit our scope to something reasonable. As it happens, Ukrainian Wikipedia already has a well-defined scope. uk:Алфавітний покажчик населених пунктів України, які були перейменовані states: This is a list of settlements of Ukraine, renamed from 01.01.1986 to 01.02.2021, created on the database of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. That gives us a start and end date (although the latter could still be updated in the future), and a source to work with (as all current entries are unsourced). As the previous talk section pointed out, we need to talk about official administrative names, not just how cities were unofficially named (in other languages) in the past before they took on official names. In other words, we are not looking for exonyms, but for official name changes. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:24, 5 March 2023 (UTC)