{
  "place_id": "lozova#7716_12017",
  "wikidata": "Q889630",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Лозова",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Lozova",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019; selected for contemporary English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lozovaya",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling, found in older international references and Russian-language source citations; retained as a recognition form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lozovaïa",
          "why": "French transcription used in French-language accounts; retained alongside the selected main form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lozovaja",
          "why": "Alternative international spelling used in references to this place; not a separate settlement or a renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лозова",
          "why": "Local name in its original Cyrillic script, useful for identifying quotations, signs and local sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лозовая",
          "why": "Russian-language source name in its original Cyrillic script, supplied to recognise quotations and multilingual records; not an English or French spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Lozova",
      "why": "Nom ukrainien actuel dans la romanisation nationale de 2010 ; forme officielle retenue pour les textes français.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lozovaya",
          "why": "Graphie issue du russe, présente dans les anciennes références internationales et les citations de sources russophones ; forme conservée pour l’identification."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lozovaïa",
          "why": "Transcription française employée dans les textes francophones, conservée à côté de la forme principale retenue."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lozovaja",
          "why": "Autre graphie internationale employée pour cette localité ; il ne s’agit ni d’une autre localité ni d’un changement de nom."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лозова",
          "why": "Nom local en alphabet cyrillique, utile pour identifier les citations, les panneaux et les sources locales."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лозовая",
          "why": "Nom russe dans son alphabet cyrillique, fourni pour reconnaître les citations et les documents multilingues ; ce n’est pas une graphie anglaise ou française."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Lozova is a city in southern Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. Its railway junction helped it develop into an engineering and industrial centre.",
  "about_fr": "Lozova est une ville du sud de l’oblast de Kharkiv, en Ukraine. Son nœud ferroviaire a contribué à son développement comme centre de construction mécanique et d’industrie.",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Lozova is the current Ukrainian form; Lozovaya follows Russian. Several smaller places have the same Ukrainian name. Formal table-derived aliases are labelled separately from attested prose spellings. Coverage of romanization systems and historical aliases is not exhaustive.",
  "rank": 196,
  "slug": "lozova"
}