{
  "place_id": "samar#7701_11956",
  "wikidata": "Q640680",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Самар",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Samar",
      "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": "Samar (Ukraine)",
          "why": "Alternative international spelling used in references to this place; not a separate settlement or a renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovsk",
          "why": "Former official name, replaced in 2024; still encountered in older maps, reports and historical accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovs’k",
          "why": "Former official name, replaced in 2024; still encountered in older maps, reports and historical accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovsk (Ukraine)",
          "why": "Former official name, replaced in 2024; still encountered in older maps, reports and historical accounts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Самар",
          "why": "Local name in its original Cyrillic script, useful for identifying quotations, signs and local sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новомосковськ",
          "why": "Original-script form of the former official name, replaced in 2024; still encountered in older maps, reports and historical accounts."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Samar",
      "why": "Nom ukrainien actuel dans la romanisation nationale de 2010 ; forme officielle retenue pour les textes français.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Samar (Ukraine)",
          "why": "Autre graphie internationale employée pour cette localité ; il ne s’agit ni d’une autre localité ni d’un changement de nom."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovsk",
          "why": "Ancien nom officiel, remplacé en 2024 ; encore présent dans les anciennes cartes, les reportages et les récits historiques."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovs’k",
          "why": "Ancien nom officiel, remplacé en 2024 ; encore présent dans les anciennes cartes, les reportages et les récits historiques."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novomoskovsk (Ukraine)",
          "why": "Ancien nom officiel, remplacé en 2024 ; encore présent dans les anciennes cartes, les reportages et les récits historiques."
        },
        {
          "name": "Самар",
          "why": "Nom local en alphabet cyrillique, utile pour identifier les citations, les panneaux et les sources locales."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новомосковськ",
          "why": "Forme en alphabet d’origine de l’ancien nom officiel, remplacé en 2024 ; encore présent dans les anciennes cartes, les reportages et les récits historiques."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Samar is a city on the Samara River in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in Ukraine. Its wooden Trinity Cathedral is a notable expression of the region’s Cossack religious architecture.",
  "about_fr": "Samar est une ville ukrainienne de l’oblast de Dnipropetrovsk, sur la Samara. Sa cathédrale de la Trinité, construite en bois, est un exemple marquant de l’architecture religieuse cosaque de la région.",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Parliament renamed Novomoskovsk to Samar in September 2024. Nova Samar/Nova Samarʹ was a local proposal, not the adopted name. The city must be distinguished from Novomoskovsk in Russia. Formal table-derived aliases are labelled separately from attested prose spellings. Coverage of romanization systems and historical aliases is not exhaustive.",
  "rank": 142,
  "slug": "samar"
}