{
  "place_id": "armiansk#7561_11871",
  "wikidata": "Q688716",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Армянськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Armiansk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Armyansk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling common in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armians’k",
          "why": "Ukrainian transliteration marking the soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armians'k",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign-marked Ukrainian form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ermeni Bazar",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar name used in historical and cultural references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armyansky Bazar",
          "why": "Russian-based historical name of the trading settlement."
        },
        {
          "name": "Virmenske",
          "why": "Ukrainian alternative advocated in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, not the verified current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armânsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Армянськ",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armyans’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armi͡ansʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Armiansk",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; Armiansk is used in French geographical references, which also quote Crimean Tatar Ermeni Bazar.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Armyansk",
          "why": "Russian-based international spelling also encountered in French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ermeni Bazar",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar name quoted in French geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Armians’k",
          "why": "Ukrainian bibliographic spelling marking the soft sign."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Armiansk is a town in northern Crimea, close to the narrow land connections with mainland Ukraine. Its development is associated with chemical industry and the older trading settlement of Armenian Bazar.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Country is UA: Crimea is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory. Virmenske is a linguistic alternative, not asserted here as a completed legal renaming. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armiansk ; https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CA%5CR%5CArmiansk.htm . Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .",
  "rank": 497,
  "slug": "armiansk"
}