{
  "place_id": "novotroitske#7650_12087",
  "wikidata": "Q4325992",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Новотроїцьке",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Novotroitske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novotroyitske",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based English spelling using y for ї."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroitskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for matching older and Russian-derived English references; actual English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroïtske",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles cited in English; not a claimed common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroyits’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroïcʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroït͡sʹke",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новотроїцьке",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Novotroïtske",
      "why": "French geographical reference spelling, using French transcription conventions.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novotroitskoïe",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French locality reference; retained for older French-source matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroitske",
          "why": "International spelling for matching Ukrainian or English source titles in French texts; the adapted French heading is given above."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novotroitskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Novotroitskoïe for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Novotroitske is a settlement southwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. It lies in the Volnovakha district and has a history of quarrying and mineral processing.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This is Novotroitske in Volnovakha district, Donetsk Oblast, not the namesake Kherson Oblast settlement. Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novotroitske,_Volnovakha_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novotroïtske ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Новотроїцьке_(Волноваський_район).",
  "rank": 1397,
  "slug": "novotroitske-q4325992"
}