{
  "place_id": "hratyeshty-selo#7616_11601",
  "wikidata": "Q2387827",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Grătiești",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Grătiești",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Grătieşti",
          "why": "Romanian legacy typography with cedilla ş rather than comma-below ș."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gratiesti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free Romanian spelling used in international indexing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hulboaca Nouă",
          "why": "Former village name recorded by the local authority; exact replacement year not established."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gratiyeshty",
          "why": "Russian-based international rendering of Гратиешты; English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гратиешты",
          "why": "Russian local name for matching quoted source titles."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hulboaca Noua",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Hulboaca Nouă for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Grătiești",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained for French readers because no separate established French name has been verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Grătieşti",
          "why": "Legacy Romanian cedilla typography useful in French source citations."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hulboaca Nouă",
          "why": "Earlier village name documented by the local authority; retained for French historical matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gratiesti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Grătiești for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hulboaca Noua",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Hulboaca Nouă for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Grătiești is a village on the northern outskirts of Chișinău in Moldova. It belongs to the capital's wider municipal area and has grown through its close connections with the city.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Supplied Q20858681 identifies the commune including Grătiești and Hulboaca. Corrected to village Q2387827 because the row explicitly says village; the input population equals a published commune total and is not repeated. Local authority records the earlier name Hulboaca Nouă. https://gratiesti.md/istoria-localitatii/ Independent French reference attestation is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grătiești ; https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comuna_Grătiești,_Chișinău ; https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grătiești,_Chișinău ; https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гратиешты_(село).",
  "rank": 1293,
  "slug": "gratiesti"
}