{
  "place_id": "zbarazh#7758_11432",
  "wikidata": "Q1019899",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Збараж",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zbarazh",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The BGN/PCGN 1965 result is identical.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zbaraż",
          "why": "Polish historical name, used in English histories of the Commonwealth and the siege."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbaraz",
          "why": "Diacritic-free version of the Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbarizh",
          "why": "Yiddish romanization used in English Jewish historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbarezh",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived variant recorded in English name indexes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sbarasch",
          "why": "German historical name recorded in English name inventories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbaraž",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbaraz͡h",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Збараж",
          "why": "Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zbaraj",
      "why": "French reference spelling, using final j for the sound written zh in English. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zbaraż",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly given in the French entry and relevant to French accounts of the siege."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbaraz",
          "why": "Diacritic-free Polish historical search form; not the preferred French spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zbarazh",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zbarazh is a town northeast of Ternopil in western Ukraine. Its castle and the siege described in Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword are central to its historical reputation.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 726,
  "slug": "zbarazh"
}