Is there a Python package or database source which would allow me to go from various romanizations of Arabic town names in Syria and Iraq to a canonical romanization?
Here is an example where the left romanization is one kind used by a US Government record collection and the other appears in a Syrian government press release. The Government names seem to be more well known and look-upable than the names used by the Syrian Government. I would like to find a canonical reduction of the two into a single reliable name:
- Al Bāqāt::al-Bakat
- Al Ismā‘ilīyah::al-Ismailiya
- Arjul::Arjal
- Batrānah::Batrana
- Bīshah::Bisha
- Buraydah::Barda
- Burj ‘Izzāwī::Burj Ghazawi
- Burj Subaynah::Burj Sabna
- Buslah::Bassila
- Buwayḑah al Kabīrah::Bouaida Kabira
- Buwayḑah aş Şaghīrah::Bouaida saghira
- Ghurayrīfah::Gharirfa
- Jabal al Mudawwar::Jabal al-Madwar
- Jafr Manşūr::Ja’far Mansour
- Jubb al Khāfī::Jub al-Khafi
- Jubb at Tīnah::Jub al-Tina
- Judaydah::Jadida
- Kafr Ḩawt::Kafro Hoot
- Khanāşir::Khanaser
- Khirbat al Ma‘ājīr::Khirbet al-Muaijer
- Madāyin Kabīrah::Madaen Kabir
- Munbaţiḩ::Munbateh
- Rasm al Bās::Rasm al-Bassas
- Rasm al Karkūr::Rasm al-Karkour
- Rasm Shawkān::Rasm Shoukan
- Rujaylah::Rjaila
- Şuwayyān::Soyan