{
  "place_id": "biiuk-onlar#7516_11895",
  "wikidata": "Q1984515",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Біюк-Онлар",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Biiuk-Onlar",
      "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": "Oktiabrske",
          "why": "Former official Ukrainian name; replaced by Biiuk-Onlar under the 2016 renaming decision, brought into force in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oktyabrskoye",
          "why": "Russian name retained under occupation; corresponds to the former Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Büyük Onlar",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar Latin spelling of the restored historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Biyuk-Onlar",
          "why": "Older English rendering of the Crimean Tatar-derived name. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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": "Büyük-Onlar",
          "why": "Hyphenated typography of the Crimean Tatar name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bìûk-Onlar",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bii͡uk-Onlar",
          "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": "Біюк-Онлар",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Buyuk Onlar",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Büyük Onlar for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Buyuk-Onlar",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Büyük-Onlar for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Biiuk-Onlar",
      "why": "Same form as in English; selected for French source matching. An established distinct French exonym or press preference was not verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Büyük Onlar",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar form available to French texts quoting the restored local name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oktiabrske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name for French historical source matching; legal restoration of Biiuk-Onlar took effect in 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oktiabrskoïe",
          "why": "French transcription of the Russian Soviet-era name, still used under occupation."
        },
        {
          "name": "Buyuk Onlar",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Büyük Onlar for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oktiabrskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Oktiabrskoïe for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Biiuk-Onlar is a settlement in the central Crimean steppe, Ukraine. Its growth was linked to the railway and to agricultural processing in the surrounding countryside.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The 2016 restoration of Biiuk-Onlar took effect under the 2023 legal change. Some secondary pages still repeat the superseded delayed-effect wording. Ukrainian national spelling Biiuk-Onlar and Crimean Tatar Büyük Onlar are not different settlements. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 888,
  "slug": "biiuk-onlar"
}