{
  "place_id": "rava-ruska#7791_11312",
  "wikidata": "Q997343",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Рава-Руська",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Rava-Ruska",
      "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": "Rava Ruska",
          "why": "Unhyphenated spelling used in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rawa Ruska",
          "why": "Polish historical or regional name quoted in English accounts of the place."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rawa-Ruska",
          "why": "Hyphenated Polish historical spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava-Russkaya",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin form for matching historical or multilingual sources; English prose frequency is not established. Not an official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rave",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish historical and genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava-Rouska",
          "why": "French reference spelling; useful when English writing cites French titles or sources. Not asserted to be a usual English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava-Rus’ka",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava-Rusʹka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym. ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Рава-Руська",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local maps, addresses and source titles quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Rava-Rouska",
      "why": "Established French spelling, particularly in accounts and memorials of the Rava-Rouska prisoner-of-war camp; ou represents у.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rava Rouska",
          "why": "Unhyphenated French spelling indexed in references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava Ruska",
          "why": "International spelling without French ou, indexed in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rawa Ruska",
          "why": "Polish name quoted in French accounts of the wartime prisoner-of-war camp."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rava-Ruska",
          "why": "International spelling retained for French source matching; French reference usage also has the adapted main form above."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Rava-Ruska is a small city near the Polish border in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast. It is associated with a major border crossing and the site of a German prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Rava-Rouska is particularly established in French memories of the wartime prisoner-of-war camp. French spellings need not be interpreted as current Ukrainian municipal romanizations. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rava-Ruska ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rava-Rouska.",
  "rank": 1133,
  "slug": "rava-ruska"
}