{
  "place_id": "beryslav#7601_11856",
  "wikidata": "Q829317",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Берислав",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Beryslav",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Berislav",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kizikermen",
          "why": "Historical name of the Ottoman fortress at this site; not a current name for the town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kizi-Kermen",
          "why": "Hyphenated rendering of the Ottoman fortress name used in historical accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kazikermen",
          "why": "Alternative historical spelling of the Ottoman fortress name, recorded in English historical accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gazikermen",
          "why": "Turkish-based historical form of the fortress name, recorded in English accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Берислав",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Beryslav",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Berislav",
          "why": "Russian-based form encountered in French coverage and older references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kizikermen",
          "why": "Fortress name relevant to French histories of the Ottoman frontier; not a general modern synonym."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Beryslav is a town on the right bank of the Dnipro in Kherson Oblast. It stands at a historic river crossing and preserves the memory of the Ottoman fortress of Kizikermen.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 832,
  "slug": "beryslav"
}