Volksrepubliek Loehansk
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
- (less common) Volksrepubliek Loegansk
Etymology edit
Calque of Russian Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика (Lugánskaja Naródnaja Respúblika) and Ukrainian Луганська народна республіка (Luhansʹka narodna respublika). The relative prevalence of the Ukrainian form Loehansk over Loegansk in this name owes to the recent emphasis on the usage of Ukrainian placenames instead of Russian ones when referring to toponyms in Ukrainian territory.
Proper noun edit
- Luhansk People's Republic (a self-proclaimed quasi-state, internationally recognized as part of the country of Ukraine; one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.)
Further reading edit
- Volksrepubliek Loehansk on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl