{
  "place_id": "ovidiopol#7570_11690",
  "wikidata": "Q1786102",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Овідіополь",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ovidiopol",
      "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": "Ovidiopol’",
          "why": "English form retaining the final Ukrainian soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ovidiopol'",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the soft-sign form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hacıdere",
          "why": "Ottoman Turkish historical name of the settlement, quoted in English histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Adzhider",
          "why": "Russian-mediated spelling of the earlier Ottoman name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ovìdìopolʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ovidiopolʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Овідіополь",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ovidiopol",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ovidiopol is a settlement on the eastern shore of the Dniester estuary in Odesa Oblast. Its name commemorates the Roman poet Ovid, although his place of exile was at Tomis in present-day Romania.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 841,
  "slug": "ovidiopol"
}