{
  "place_id": "horodyshche#7738_11747",
  "wikidata": "Q219869",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Городище",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Horodyshche",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The BGN/PCGN 1965 result is identical. The ALA-LC 2011 result is identical.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gorodishche",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling of Городище."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gorodichtche",
          "why": "French transcription of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Horodyszcze",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling used in English genealogical and borderland material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gorodiŝe",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Городище",
          "why": "Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Horodychtche",
      "why": "French reference spelling, using chtch for the Ukrainian consonant written shch in English. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gorodichtche",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French reference entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Horodyszcze",
          "why": "Polish historical search form; French prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Horodyshche",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Horodyshche is a town on the Vilshanka River west of Cherkasy in central Ukraine. It is the birthplace of the singer and composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This record is for Horodyshche in Cherkasy Oblast, not the many villages with the same name.",
  "rank": 722,
  "slug": "horodyshche"
}