{
  "place_id": "ananiv#7651_11664",
  "wikidata": "Q485891",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Ананьїв",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ananiv",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. Ananiv is also the conventional English reference heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ananyiv",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based English spelling with y for the glide."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ananyev",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for historical or multilingual retrieval; English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ananiev",
          "why": "Romanian and Jewish-community spelling explicitly given in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nani",
          "why": "Romanian historical name recorded in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ananiiv",
          "why": "Variant explicitly printed in the English reference entry; not the national 2010 transliteration of Ананьїв."
        },
        {
          "name": "Anan’yiv",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ananʹïv",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified. ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ананьїв",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ananiv",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ananiev",
          "why": "Russian-based form explicitly given in French references; also the Romanian historical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nani",
          "why": "Romanian historical name explicitly quoted in the French entry."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ananiv is a small city on the Tylihul River in northern Odesa Oblast. Its older public buildings recall its former role as an administrative centre in the Russian Empire.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Ananiv is the selected Ukrainian national form. Ananiiv and Ananyiv also occur in English references; they do not indicate separate official renamings. Nani and Ananiev belong to Romanian and historical sources. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananiv ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananiv.",
  "rank": 1227,
  "slug": "ananiv"
}