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I don't know, but web search shows someone asking about this name in a comment here www.truelithuania.com/tag/why-did-my-lithuanian-great-grandfather-emigrate#comment-261774
If all you want is to parse a Gedcom and store the data in a relational database, then why does it matter whether it's in Java or Python or some other language?
I've been dealing with a similar issue a lot. Many of my relatives were born or died in locations in Russian Empire or Austria-Hungary or other Eastern Europe that changed hands/names many times in recent history. I assume that whatever I write down, may not always be read later by someone familiar with the detaila of local history. So i try to write somwthing like "Dnipro, called at the time Yekaterinoslav, also formerly called Dnepropetrovsk". In your example, between 1776 and 1783, I might write "Commonwealth of Virginia, also called at the time Colony of Virginia, Btitish North America".
Now that the picture is larger and clearer, I wonder whether the two letters that everyone thought were iв, are actually iѣ, i.e. that it's a Yat (one of the letters abolished in 1918) rather than a "v".
