{
  "place_id": "trostianets#7804_11942",
  "wikidata": "Q606706",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Тростянець",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Trostianets",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Trostyanets",
          "why": "Older English rendering using ya."
        },
        {
          "name": "Trostianetsʹ",
          "why": "Ukrainian scholarly spelling marking the final soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Trostjanec’",
          "why": "Scholarly transliteration used by the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine."
        },
        {
          "name": "Trostânecʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Тростянець",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Trostyanets’",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Trosti͡anet͡sʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Trostianets",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; used by Le Monde in reporting on the town in April 2022.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Trostyanets",
          "why": "Older international spelling encountered in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Trostianets is a town in Sumy Oblast in north-eastern Ukraine. Its Round Court and the grounds of an aristocratic estate are distinctive historical landmarks.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Not the other Trostianets settlements or the dendrological park in Chernihiv Oblast. French press: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/04/08/liberee-des-forces-russes-la-ville-de-trostianets-dans-le-nord-est-de-l-ukraine-reprend-vie_6121190_3210.html ; scholarly form: https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CT%5CR%5CTrostianetsSumyoblast.htm . Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .",
  "rank": 496,
  "slug": "trostianets"
}