What does Poctob mean?

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I'm doing a research report on Rostov Veliky for a Geography class. I have no experience in Russian and I lack understanding of geography in general. The map refers to it as Poctov and I can not translate it into English using google, I tried.

I can only guess but is this the Russian word for Rostov, why wouldn't it use Russian characters? If not please explain what it is. If it is, please let me know if Russians would call Rostov Veliky, Poctob Veliky.

here it is: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rostov,+Yaroslavl+Oblast,+Russia/@57.1968466,39.3805101,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x46b3204f23a50833:0xa4f3079f91ac13e0

Sorry, very confused here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostov provides Russian spelling too. Vote to close. — Matt, Feb 05 '16 at 18:38
It may be over obvious to you, but all it says is Poctov. It doesn't explain what it is or means. — user275564, Feb 05 '16 at 18:42
It does say two spellings of the same word using Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. "Poctob" is just some error which you found somewhere else. — Matt, Feb 05 '16 at 18:49
POCTOB (poctob) is actually capital cyrillic letters for ростов - РОСТОВ. — Artemix, Feb 05 '16 at 19:07
Ростов Великий. Rostov Velikii. And do not use Poctob or Poctov. It is wrong. — zds, Feb 05 '16 at 18:36
@Quassnoi I've added a link to where I seen it on google maps — user275564, Feb 05 '16 at 22:48

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '16 at 18:38

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Poctob is the Russian word Ростов, 'Rostov' written in the English letters that look closest to the Russian ones.

answered Feb 05 '16 at 18:38

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