{
  "place_id": "brychany#7686_11504",
  "wikidata": "Q2019727",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Briceni",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Briceni",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Briceni-Târg",
          "why": "Former qualified Romanian name meaning Briceni market town; distinguished from Briceni Sat."
        },
        {
          "name": "Briceni Târg",
          "why": "Spaced historical market-town form explicitly quoted in English prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Briceni Sat",
          "why": "Historical village component; not an unrestricted synonym for the entire modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Britshan",
          "why": "Yiddish name explicitly quoted in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bryczany",
          "why": "Polish historical or community name recorded in regional references; English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Berchan",
          "why": "Historical name variant explicitly listed in English reference prose; exact language attribution uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bricheni",
          "why": "Historical Latin spelling explicitly listed in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bricheni Târg",
          "why": "Historical qualified variant explicitly listed in English prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bricheni Sat",
          "why": "Historical village-component variant explicitly listed in English prose; narrower historical scope."
        },
        {
          "name": "Britchan",
          "why": "Historical Jewish-community spelling listed in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Britchani",
          "why": "Historical name variant explicitly listed in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Britsiteni",
          "why": "Historical name variant explicitly listed in English reference prose; exact language attribution uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Brichany",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for matching older or Russian-derived references in English; independent prose frequency unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Briceni-Targ",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Briceni-Târg for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Briceni Targ",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Briceni Târg for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bricheni Targ",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Bricheni Târg for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Briceni",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Briceni is a district town in northern Moldova. Its large Jewish cemetery recalls a community that was central to the town's life before the Holocaust.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Briceni is the district town in northern Moldova, not the eastern namesake village. Historical town/market and village components have different scope; cemetery counts vary, so none is repeated. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briceni ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briceni.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1576,
  "slug": "briceni"
}