{
  "place_id": "hadiach#7798_11888",
  "wikidata": "Q268638",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Гадяч",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hadiach",
      "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": "Hadyach",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based English spelling. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019.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": "Gadyach",
          "why": "Russian-based English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hadyacz",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English accounts of the 1658 treaty."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gadiach",
          "why": "Older Russian-mediated spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Haditch",
          "why": "Jewish religious and pilgrimage spelling associated with the grave of Shneur Zalman of Liadi."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gadâč",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гадяч",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hadi͡ach",
          "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": "Hadiatch",
      "why": "French geographical spelling with tch, used by Larousse. French Hasidic references also use Haditch for the same town.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gadiatch",
          "why": "Russian-based French historical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Haditch",
          "why": "Form used by French-language Hasidic sources for the pilgrimage site."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hadyacz",
          "why": "Polish form in French histories of the Commonwealth."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hadyach",
          "why": "International Ukrainian-based spelling also listed in French Jewish reference material."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hadiach is a town in Poltava Oblast near the Psel river. It is associated with Cossack political history and the treaty that bears its name.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "French Hadiatch is used by Larousse: https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/litterature/Mikha%C3%AFlo_Petrovytch_Drahomanov/172978 ; Haditch and variants: https://hassidout.org/encyclopedie/haditch/ . 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": 435,
  "slug": "hadiach"
}