{
  "place_id": "novhorod-siverskyi#7888_11848",
  "wikidata": "Q147758",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Новгород-Сіверський",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Novhorod-Siverskyi",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Seversky",
          "why": "Established Russian-based English spelling in historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Severskiy",
          "why": "Russian-based geographical romanization, retaining iy for final ий."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Severski",
          "why": "French historical rendering of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novhorod-Sivers’kyy",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; a standard-derived retrieval spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novhorod-Sivers'kyy",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 retrieval form; not an additional official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Sìversʹkij",
          "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": "Novhorod-Siversʹkyĭ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новгород-Сіверський",
          "why": "Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Novhorod-Siverskyï",
      "why": "French reference spelling, using final ï in the adjective. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Seversky",
          "why": "Russian-based international spelling; French commonly uses Novgorod-Severski."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novgorod-Severski",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French reference entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novhorod-Siverskyi",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Novhorod-Siverskyi is a historic town on the Desna River in northern Chernihiv Oblast. It was a centre of a medieval principality and is closely associated with The Tale of Igor's Campaign.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 781,
  "slug": "novhorod-siverskyi"
}