Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (, ; ; ), historically known as Aq Kirmān () or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. It is situated on the right bank of the Dniester Estuary leading to the Black Sea, in the historical region of Budjak. It also serves as the administrative center of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion and is coterminous with Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is the location of a large freight seaport. Population:

== Name == The city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is also referred to by alternative transliterations from Ukrainian as Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky. Dnistrovskyi was added to differentiate it from Belgorod (in Ukrainian Bilhorod), a city in Russia, when both were a part of the Soviet Union. Previous names Ophiussa (Οφιούσσα), Phoenician colony (meaning "city of snakes" in Greek) Tyras (Τύρας), Ancient Greek colony (also the Greek name for the River Dniester) Turis, Antes name Asprokastron (, "White Castle"), Greek name in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Name attested from 944 to 1484 AD. Maurokastron (Μαυρόκαστρον, "Black Castle"), Greek name of a Roman/Byzantine fort in late antiquity on a site directly opposite Asprokastron, but usually taken together. Album Castrum ("White Castle"), Latin name Cetatea Albă ("White Citadel"), Romanian name Moncastro, Italian corruption of Maurokastron used by Genoese traders and during Genoese rule (14th–15th centuries) Turla, Turkic Akkerman, Ottoman Turkish ("White Castle") and Russian name until 1944 Aqkermen, Crimean Tatar name Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Russian (Белгород-Днестровский, "White city on the Dniester") Weißenburg, ("White Castle"), German name