{
  "place_id": "zlatopil#7743_12011",
  "wikidata": "Q889579",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Златопіль",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zlatopil",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pervomaiskyi",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian official name in the 2010 national romanization; replaced in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomayskyi",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based romanization of the former name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomaysky",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the former name used in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomayskiy",
          "why": "Russian romanization of the former name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lykhachove",
          "why": "Historical settlement name associated with the railway origins of the city."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zlatopìlʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Златопіль",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zlatopil",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; attested in French Ministry of the Armed Forces reporting after the September 2024 renaming. Older French references use Pervomaïsky.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pervomaïsky",
          "why": "Former name in French geographical usage; replaced officially in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomaïski",
          "why": "French Russian-based variant of the former name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomaïskyï",
          "why": "French Ukrainian-based variant of the former name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zlatopil is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, south of Kharkiv. Railway development and chemical industry helped shape the modern settlement, formerly called Pervomaiskyi.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed Первомайський to Златопіль in September 2024: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/3984-IX . Not the historic Zlatopil incorporated into Novomyrhorod. French government reporting uses Zlatopil: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/ministere-armees/SITUATION_EN_UKRAINE_ARCHIVE_29_NOVEMBRE_AU_23_DECEMBRE_2024.pdf . ISO 9:1995 alternatives are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 350,
  "slug": "zlatopil"
}