{
  "place_id": "tarasivtsi#7677_11464",
  "wikidata": "Q2089934",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Тарасівці",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Tarasivtsi",
      "why": "Current official Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010), adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019; selected for English geographical use. Also matches BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Tărăsăuți",
          "why": "Romanian community/historical name explicitly quoted in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tărăsăuţi",
          "why": "Legacy Romanian typography with cedilla ţ."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tarasovtsy",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling for matching older English geographical references; independent prose frequency unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tarasìvcì",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, independent English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tarasivt͡si",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, independent English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Тарасівці",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tarasauti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Tărăsăuți for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Tarasivtsi",
      "why": "International Ukrainian spelling retained for French readers; no established French-specific spelling verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Tarasìvcì",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 form for French catalogue matching; not verified as French prose usage."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Tarasivtsi is a village in Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine. It lies in the Prut valley near the Romanian border and has a substantial Romanian-speaking community.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Romanian Tărăsăuți is a community and historical name. It must not be confused with Noua Suliță/Novoselytsia, which appears misleadingly among Romanian naming-data aliases and is excluded. Standard-derived forms support retrieval without implying English or French press adoption. Independent French locality-prose evidence is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2089934 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasivtsi.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1697,
  "slug": "tarasivtsi"
}