{
  "place_id": "bakhchysarai#7486_11881",
  "wikidata": "Q158604",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Бахчисарай",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bakhchysarai",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bakhchisaray",
          "why": "Established Russian-based English form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bakhchisarai",
          "why": "Traditional Russian-based spelling with final ai."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bahçesaray",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar Latin-script name, relevant to Crimean Tatar history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bakhchysaray",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based English spelling with final ay."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bakhchisaraj",
          "why": "Scholarly-style Russian transliteration."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bahčisaraj",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Бахчисарай",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bakhtchyssaraï",
      "why": "Established French exonym with tch, ss and final aï; French spelling varies between Bakhtchyssaraï and Bakhtchissaraï.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bakhtchissaraï",
          "why": "Traditional French variant, especially in references to the palace and Pushkin’s poem."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bakhchysarai",
          "why": "International Ukrainian-based form also used in French sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bakhchisaray",
          "why": "International Russian-based form in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bahçesaray",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar form used when discussing Crimean Tatar heritage."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bakhchysarai is a city in Crimea in the valley of the Churuk-Su river. It was a capital of the Crimean Khanate, and the khans’ palace remains its best-known monument.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Crimea is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory and has been occupied by Russia since 2014. The Crimean Tatar form is a living local name, not merely a historical exonym. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 361,
  "slug": "bakhchysarai"
}