{
  "place_id": "bessarabka#7574_11608",
  "wikidata": "Q809787",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Basarabeasca",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Basarabeasca",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bessarabka",
          "why": "Russian-based name and supplied Ukrainian input name; the Romanian civic form is Basarabeasca."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanovca",
          "why": "Former name, replaced by Basarabeasca in 1957."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanovka",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the former Romanovca name, replaced in 1957."
        },
        {
          "name": "Românești",
          "why": "Romanian-period name indexed in English naming data and discussed in French history; precise chronology unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanesti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Românești for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Basarabeasca",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Romanovka",
          "why": "Russian-derived historical name used in the French account of the original Jewish settlement."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanówka",
          "why": "Polish-spelled historical variant explicitly quoted in French reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Românești",
          "why": "Romanian-period name explicitly recorded in French locality history; exact replacement chronology differs between sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanowka",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Romanówka for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Romanesti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Românești for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Basarabeasca is a town in southern Moldova beside the Ukrainian border. Its railway junction has played a central role in the town's economy and development.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Basarabeasca is the Romanian civic name; supplied Ukrainian Бессарабка is not the native local spelling. Romanovca/Romanovka and Românești occur in historical accounts; French and English founding/renaming chronology needs caution. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809787 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basarabeasca ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basarabeasca ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бессарабка_(місто).",
  "rank": 1472,
  "slug": "basarabeasca"
}