{
  "place_id": "vesele#7612_11940",
  "wikidata": "Q2064567",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Веселе",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vesele",
      "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": "Vesyoloye",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Veseloye",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling using e for ё."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vesyoloe",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling without the glide letter in the final vowel sequence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vessele",
          "why": "French spelling, useful when an English text cites French maps, titles or historical sources; not the selected English main form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Веселе",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vessele",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; the adaptation follows French transcription conventions rather than English spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vessioloïe",
          "why": "Russian-derived French reference form; io and ï reflect French transcription conventions."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vesele",
          "why": "International spelling also useful for French source matching; the selected French main follows French reference transcription."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vessioloie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Vessioloïe for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vesele is a settlement in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. It was the centre of a district before Ukraine's administrative reform abolished that district.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesele,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessele.",
  "rank": 1005,
  "slug": "vesele"
}