Editing Chernobyl (section)

===Identity of Ptolemy's "Azagarium"===
Some older geographical dictionaries and descriptions of modern [[Eastern Europe]] mention "Czernobol" (Chernobyl) with reference to [[Ptolemy's world map]] (2nd century AD). Czernobol is identified as {{ill|Azagarium|uk|Азагаріум}} "oppidium Sarmatiae" (Lat., "a city in Sarmatia"), by the 1605 ''Lexicon geographicum'' of [[Filippo Ferrari]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Ferrari |first=Filippo |author-link= Filippo Ferrari |chapter= Chernobol |title= Lexicon geographicum |year= 1670 |volume= 2 |edition= 1670 (reprint of 1605 first edition) |location= Paris |quote= ''Czernobol'', Azagarium, ''oppidium Sarmatiae''. (''lit.'' "''Czernobol'', Azagarium, ''city in Sarmatia''.") |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-pREAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA396 |access-date= 2 September 2020 |archive-date= 5 March 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220305100032/https://books.google.com/books?id=-pREAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA396 |url-status= live }}</ref> and the 1677 ''[[Lexicon Universale]]'' of Johann Jakob Hofmann.<ref>{{cite book |last= Hofmann |first=Johann Jakob Hofmann |title= Chernobol – Lexicon universale historico-geographico-chronologico-poetico-philologicum |year= 1677 |quote= ''Czernobol'', oppidium Sarmatiae, ''Azagarium''. (''lit.'' "''Czernobol'', city in Sarmatia, ''Azagarium''.") |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zSxfck1ntLYC&pg=RA1-PA36 |access-date= 2 September 2020 }}</ref> According to the ''Dictionary of Ancient Geography'' of [[Alexander Macbean]] (London, 1773), Azagarium is "a town of [[Sarmatia Europaea]], on the [[Borysthenes]]" ([[Dnieper]]), 36° East longitude and 50°40' latitude. The city is "now supposed to be ''Czernobol'', a town of Poland, in Red Russia [<nowiki/>[[Red Ruthenia]]], in the Palatinate of Kiow [<nowiki/>[[Kiev Voivodeship]]], not far from the Borysthenes."<ref>{{cite book |last=Macbean |first=Alexander |author-link=Alexander Macbean |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqwBAAAAYAAJ&q=Czernobol&pg=RA7-PA18 |chapter=Azagarium |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028002500/https://books.google.ca/books?id=EqwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA7-PA18&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Czernobol&f=false |archive-date=28 October 2020 |title=A Dictionary of Ancient Geography |location=London |year=1773 |access-date=24 October 2020}}</ref>

Whether Azagarium is indeed Czernobol is debatable. The question of Azagarium's correct location was raised in 1842 by [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg]]-[[Slovaks|Slovak]] historian, [[Pavel Jozef Šafárik]], who published a book titled "Slavic Ancient History" ("Sławiańskie starożytności"), where he claimed Azagarium to be the hill of Zaguryna, which he found on an old Russian map "Bolzoj czertez" (Big drawing){{dubious|Azagarium|reason=What is this "Big drawing"? The name of the map, or what?|date=September 2020}} near the city of [[Pereiaslav]], now in [[central Ukraine]].<ref name=Slavic>{{cite book |last=Šafárik |first=Pavel Jozef |author-link=Pavel Jozef Šafárik |title= Sławiańskie starożytności |page= 660 |publisher= Wydanie i druk W. Stefańskiego |location= Poznan |volume= 1 |year= 1842 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=m6x5wrdxackC&pg=PA660 |access-date=2 September 2020}}</ref>

In 2019, Ukrainian architect Boris Yerofalov-Pylypchak published a book, ''Roman Kyiv or Castrum Azagarium at Kyiv-[[Podil]]''.<ref name=Yerofalov>{{cite book |last= Yerofalov-Pylypchak |first= Boris |title= Римский Киев: или Castrum Azagarium на Киево-Подоле (Roman Kyiv or Castrum Azagarium at Kyiv-Podil) |publisher= A+C |year= 2019 |isbn= 9786177765010 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YWg2ywEACAAJ |access-date=2 September 2020}}</ref>