{
  "place_id": "ivatsevychi#7928_11407",
  "wikidata": "Q587173",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Івацэвічы",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ivatsevichy",
      "why": "English rendering from Belarusian, chosen alongside the Russian-based and national-system forms supplied below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivacevičy",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization of 2007, UN-endorsed in 2012 and superseded domestically in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ivatsevichi",
          "why": "Russian-based English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iwacewicze",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English regional history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ивацевичи",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Івацэвічы",
          "why": "Belarusian original-script name, supplied for quotations and bilingual source matching."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ivatsevitchy",
      "why": "French Belarusian-based spelling with tch, used on the French Foreign Ministry’s 2014 map of Belarus.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivatsevitchi",
          "why": "Russian-based French name documented alongside the Belarusian-based spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iwacewicze",
          "why": "Polish historical name relevant to French accounts of interwar eastern Poland."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ivacevičy",
          "why": "Belarusian Latin-script form quoted in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ivatsevichy is a town in Brest Region in western Belarus. Its growth was closely connected with the railway between Brest and Minsk.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "French Ivatsevitchy appears on a French Foreign Ministry map: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/files/files/le-ministere/archives-et-traites/S%E2%80%99orienter%20dans%20les%20fonds%20et%20collections/carte-bielorussie-2014.pdf . Input label 'Івацевичі' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 449,
  "slug": "ivatsevichy"
}