{
  "place_id": "synzhereia#7646_11563",
  "wikidata": "Q2249997",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Sîngerei",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sîngerei",
      "why": "Current official Romanian Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sângerei",
          "why": "Romanian orthographic variant with â; not a separate civic renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lazovsk",
          "why": "Soviet-era name, replaced by Sîngerei in 1991; sources disagree on the starting year, so none is asserted."
        },
        {
          "name": "Singerei",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing and indexing form of Sîngerei."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sangerei",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of the alternative spelling Sângerei."
        },
        {
          "name": "Synzhereya",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling of Сынжерея; frequency in English prose is uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Сынжерея",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sîngerei",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sângerei",
          "why": "Romanian orthographic variant explicitly listed in French reference material; not a separate civic renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lazovsk",
          "why": "Former Soviet name, replaced in 1991; useful in French historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Singerei",
          "why": "Diacritic-free indexing form used for French retrieval."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sangerei",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Sângerei used for French retrieval."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sîngerei is a district town southeast of Bălți in northern Moldova. It serves the surrounding agricultural area and was known as Lazovsk during the Soviet period.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Official Moldovan spelling Sîngerei retained; Sângerei is a Romanian orthographic variant. Lazovsk was replaced in 1991. Sources disagree over whether the Soviet name began in 1944 or 1965; no starting year asserted. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sîngerei ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sîngerei.",
  "rank": 974,
  "slug": "singerei"
}