{
  "place_id": "bershad#7687_11640",
  "wikidata": "Q827229",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Бершадь",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bershad",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bershad’",
          "why": "English romanization retaining a mark for the final Ukrainian soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bershad'",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Berszad",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place."
        },
        {
          "name": "Berchad",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Beršadʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bershadʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Бершадь",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Berchad",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; French ch renders ш.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bershad",
          "why": "International spelling found alongside the adapted French spelling Berchad."
        },
        {
          "name": "Berszad",
          "why": "Polish historical form relevant to French genealogical references; French frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bershad is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast in the historic Podolia region of Ukraine. It was an important centre of Jewish religious life and weaving, and its wartime ghetto forms a painful part of its history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 804,
  "slug": "bershad"
}