{
  "place_id": "yaloveny#7607_11598",
  "wikidata": "Q597086",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Ialoveni",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ialoveni",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name, retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Yaloveni",
          "why": "Russian-mediated English spelling, common in older maps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yaloveny",
          "why": "Another Russian-based Latin spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kutuzov",
          "why": "Soviet-era official name, replaced by Ialoveni in 1989."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ialoveni",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Yaloveni",
          "why": "Russian-mediated name in older French geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koutouzov",
          "why": "French rendering of the former Soviet name, replaced in 1989."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ialoveni is a town southwest of Chișinău in central Moldova. It serves the surrounding wine-growing area and forms part of the capital’s wider suburban region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The Soviet commemorative name Kutuzov was replaced in 1989. Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 678,
  "slug": "ialoveni"
}