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Horod

Slavic word meaning town or castle

Summary

Slavic word meaning town or castle

Horod (город) from Old Slavonic gord is a version of the Slavic word meaning "town", "city" or "castle", also found in Slavic languages as grad or gorod.

It is mostly found in Czech, Slovak, Belarusian and Ukrainian, which, unlike the other Slavic languages, do not use hard 'g' except in loanwords.

Horod is preserved in the toponymy of numerous Slavic placenames:

Uzhhorod
Vyshhorod
Horodok
Horodyshche
Myrhorod
Novomyrhorod
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Horodyshche
Horodenka
Sharhorod
Bilohorodka
Hradyzk, formerly Horodyshche
Novhorod-Siverskyi
Zvenyhorod
Zvenyhorodka

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