{
  "place_id": "shtefan-vode#7584_11647",
  "wikidata": "Q1982983",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Ștefan Vodă",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ștefan Vodă",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ştefan Vodă",
          "why": "Legacy Romanian typography with cedilla Ş instead of comma-below Ș."
        },
        {
          "name": "Suvorov",
          "why": "Soviet name replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chizil",
          "why": "Earlier name printed in English history; not a current civic name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kizil",
          "why": "Variant historical spelling explicitly quoted in English history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Stefan Voda",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ștefan Vodă",
      "why": "Same as in English; no distinct established French prose form verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ştefan Vodă",
          "why": "Legacy cedilla typography for French catalogue retrieval; modern heading uses Romanian comma-below Ș."
        },
        {
          "name": "Stefan Voda",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Ștefan Vodă for French indexing; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ștefan Vodă is a town in southeastern Moldova and the centre of its namesake district. Its present name honours the Moldavian ruler Stephen the Great.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Suvorov replaced by Ștefan Vodă in 1990 according to English locality history. No French prose adoption date or ministry preference verified. Independent French locality-prose evidence is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ștefan_Vodă.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1670,
  "slug": "stefan-voda"
}