{
  "place_id": "ivanove#7897_11418",
  "wikidata": "Q956207",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Іванава",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ivanava",
      "why": "Belarusian official-language name in Latin transcription; it also agrees with the 2007 geographical system.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivanovo",
          "why": "Russian-based official-language form used in many English maps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janów Poleski",
          "why": "Former Polish name used in English histories of Polesia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janow Poleski",
          "why": "Unaccented Polish historical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanov",
          "why": "Russian-mediated rendering of the older Janów name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janów",
          "why": "Historical short name, ambiguous without the Polesian context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Іванава",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ivanava",
      "why": "Same as in English; Ivanava is the Belarusian-based heading in French reference usage.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivanovo",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative retained in French reference works."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janów Poleski",
          "why": "Polish historical name in French writing about Polesia and saint André Bobola."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janow Poleski",
          "why": "Accent-free form of the Polish historical name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ivanava is a town in Brest Region in southwestern Belarus. Its older identity as Janów Poleski connects it with the history of Polesia and with the martyr Andrew Bobola.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The present name dates from the Soviet period; an exact legal renaming date is not asserted. Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. The dated 2007/UN 2012 geographical system is distinguished from Belarus’s replacement domestic rules of 2023.",
  "rank": 632,
  "slug": "ivanava"
}