{
  "place_id": "slovianoserbsk#7705_12165",
  "wikidata": "Q608400",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Слов'яносербськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Slovianoserbsk",
      "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": "Slavyanoserbsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English name, widely used in reporting and history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Slavianoserbsk",
          "why": "Alternative international romanization of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Donetske",
          "why": "Earlier Ukrainian name, superseded by Slovianoserbsk in 1817."
        },
        {
          "name": "Donetskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the earlier name, superseded in 1817."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pidhirne",
          "why": "Early Ukrainian name associated with the settlement before its Donetske period."
        },
        {
          "name": "Podgornoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the early name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Slov”yanoserbs’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Слов'яносербськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local maps, addresses and source titles quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Slovianoserbsk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Slavianoserbsk",
          "why": "Russian-derived form explicitly given in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Slovianoserbsk is a settlement near the Siverskyi Donets River in Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast. Its name recalls the eighteenth-century Slavo-Serbian military settlement project.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Slovianoserbsk derives from the Slavo-Serbian military-settlement project. Early Pidhirne/Podgornoye and Donetske/Donetskoye refer to phases of the settlement’s history; Donetskoye here is not modern Donetsk city. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovianoserbsk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovianoserbsk.",
  "rank": 1198,
  "slug": "slovianoserbsk"
}