{
  "place_id": "zelva#7952_11378",
  "wikidata": "Q2618952",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Зэльва",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zelva",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English reference spelling; Russian-derived and dated national-system forms are distinguished below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zeĺva",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization (2007), recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, without implying unchanged domestic rules after 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zelwa",
          "why": "Polish historical or community name recorded in regional references; English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zel’va",
          "why": "English naming-data spelling preserving the soft sign with a curly apostrophe."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zel'va",
          "why": "Straight-apostrophe version of the soft-sign spelling indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zėlʹva",
          "why": "Library-style historical spelling indexed in English naming data; precise table edition unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zelvah",
          "why": "Jewish historical retrieval spelling recorded in English naming data; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zelṿah",
          "why": "Jewish historical retrieval spelling recorded in English naming data; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Зэльва",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zelva",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zelva is a small town on the Zelvyanka River in western Belarus's Grodno Region. Its annual fair once drew traders from across the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "National-system labels are dated 2007/UN 2012; domestic rules changed in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelva ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelva.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1504,
  "slug": "zelva"
}