{
  "place_id": "siversk#7714_12115",
  "wikidata": "Q1940853",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Сіверськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Siversk",
      "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": "Seversk",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yama",
          "why": "Former official name, replaced by Siversk in 1973."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iama",
          "why": "Alternative romanization of the former name Яма; useful for historical retrieval."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sivers’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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": "Sivers'k",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sìversʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Siversʹk",
          "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": "Сіверськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Siversk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Seversk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling also present in French reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yama",
          "why": "Former name before 1973; used in French historical reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iama",
          "why": "French-compatible rendering of Яма, for historical source matching; French textual frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Siversk is a town in northern Donetsk Oblast, east of Sloviansk. Dolomite mining and processing shaped its economy, and older records identify it by the former name Yama.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed from Yama to Siversk in 1973. Russian Seversk is ambiguous with the much larger city in Russia; the country and region are essential. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 899,
  "slug": "siversk"
}