Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains in a handy size, 16 x 23cm paperback atlas, in Cyrillic but with an English map legend, plus detailed street plan of the regions main towns, including Lviv, Chernovitz, Drohobych, Kolomyia, etc. The atlas presents this fascinating region, once known for its great ethnic & cultural diversity, highlighting numerous places of interest, including historical & architectural monuments, religious buildings, folk craft centres, tourist accommodation including campsites & hostels, etc. Picturesque towns & villages are highlighted, & many are annotated with dates of their foundation or first mention in written records. Road network
Includes:: dirt tracks & country lanes, gives distance on main & secondary routes, & shows locations of fuels supplies & border crossings. Railways indicate narrow gauge lines & show stations. Topography is shown by spot heights, with colouring & graphics indicating forested areas, vineyards & swamps. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas a prominently marked. The maps have latitude lines at intervals of 10’, with longitude at 15’. All place names are shown in Cyrillic only &, apart from the English map legend, all the text is in Ukrainian. This
Includes:: lists of main places of interest which annotate all the road maps & street plans. The atlas has a separate index of localities & a distance table. Also included are detailed street plans, some spread over several pages, showing 11 main towns in the region. The plans, annotated with main places of interest & various facilities including tourist accommodation, show: Lviv, Chernovitz, Drohobych, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khotyn, Kolomyia, Morshyn, Mukacheve, Striy, Truskavetz & Uzhgorod. Given the region’s history, listing all the alternative transliterations of their names would prove to be a daunting task. For Chernovitz or Chernivtsi alone Wikipedia shows: Cernauti (Romanian), Cernovicy (German, alternate transliteration from the Ukrainian Cyrillic), Cernowitz (Yiddish, alternate form), Cérnivci (Ukrainian, 2nd most common Roman transliteration), Cernivcy (Ukrainian, alternate transliteration), Cernovce (Russian, alternate transliteration), Cernovcy (Russian, alternate transliteration), Cernovice (Czech/ Slovak), Chernivci (Ukrainian, alternate transliteration), Chernivcy (Ukrainian, alternate transliteration), Chernivtcy (Ukrainian, alternate transliteration), Chernivtsi (Ukrainian, commonest English transliteration), Chernovcy (Russian, alternate transliteration), Chernovicy (Yiddish, alternate Roman transliteration of the Russian Cyrillic form), Chernovits (Yiddish, alternate transliteration), Chernovitse (Yiddish, rare transliteration into Roman script of the Ukrainian Cyrillic transliteration), Chernovitsy (Ukrainian, Yiddish, rare alternate transliteration), Chernovitz (Yiddish, alternate form), Chernovtsy (Russian), Chernowitz (Yiddish, alternate transliteration), Csernivci (Hungarian, alternate transliteration from the current Ukrainian Cyrillic name), Csernovic (Hungarian), Csernyivci (Hungarian, transliteration from the current Ukrainian Cyrillic name), Czernovicensia (Latin, ecclesiastical), Czerniowce (Polish), Czernovitz (Yiddish, alternate transliteration), Czernowitz (German), Tchernowcy (Yiddish, transliteration from the Russian Cyrillic form), Tjernivtsi (Norwegian, Swedish, transliterated from the Ukrainian Cyrillic original), Tscherniwzi (German, transliteration from the Ukrainian Cyrillic, from German version of ` Yurij Fedkovytsch Czernowitzer Nationaler Universität`, i.e. ` Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University` website, 2005), Tschernovits (Yiddish, alternate trasliteration), Tschernowitz (German, archaic, non-standard form), Tshernevits (Yiddish, alternate transliteration), Tshernovits (Yiddish, current standard transliteration)!IMPORTANT
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