{
  "place_id": "dzerzhynsk#7982_11507",
  "wikidata": "Q200891",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Дзяржынск",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dzyarzhynsk",
      "why": "Established English rendering from Belarusian; retained for recognition alongside Russian-based and national-system variants.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dziaržynsk",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization revised in 2007 and UN-approved in 2012; historical standard, superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dziarzhynsk",
          "why": "Belarusian-based spelling substituting zh for ž."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzerzhinsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English form of the present name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koydanava",
          "why": "Belarusian-based form of the earlier name, replaced in 1932."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koidanov",
          "why": "Russian-based historical name, still common in English Jewish history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koydanov",
          "why": "Alternative English romanization of the historical Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kojdanów",
          "why": "Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koidanovo",
          "why": "Historical variant in English Jewish and geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Дзержинск",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Dziarjynsk",
      "why": "French geographical transcription, selected for recognizability in French references; normally used without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dzerjinsk",
          "why": "Russian-based French form of the present name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koïdanava",
          "why": "French rendering of the older Belarusian name, replaced in 1932."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koïdanov",
          "why": "French rendering of the historical Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kojdanów",
          "why": "Polish historical form used in accounts of the former Polish national district."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dziaržynsk",
          "why": "Scholarly and map form also encountered in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Dzyarzhynsk is a town south-west of Minsk in Belarus. Its earlier name, Koydanava, is familiar in the history of the town’s Jewish community and the former Polish national district.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Present name adopted in 1932; no decommunization renaming is asserted for Belarus. Different from Toretsk in Ukraine. French form: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziarjynsk . Input label 'Дзержинськ' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 345,
  "slug": "dzyarzhynsk"
}