{
  "place_id": "khotyn#7694_11471",
  "wikidata": "Q45883",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Хотин",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Khotyn",
      "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": "Hotin",
          "why": "Romanian historical name used in English accounts of Bessarabia. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chocim",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English histories of the battles at the fortress."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khotin",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chotyn",
          "why": "Historical Polish/German-mediated Latin spelling used in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Хотин",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Khotyn",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Khotine",
          "why": "Older Russian-derived French form with final e, particularly in historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chocim",
          "why": "Polish form used in French histories of the fortress and its battles."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hotin",
          "why": "Romanian historical name used in French accounts of Bessarabia."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Khotyn is a small city on the Dniester in Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Its fortress is associated with major battles involving the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Hotin and Chocim remain relevant in English and French historical writing; Khotyn is the current Ukrainian national form. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotyn ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotyn. Some reference requests failed during research; surviving checks and unresolved usage limitations are distinguished above.",
  "rank": 1097,
  "slug": "khotyn"
}