{
  "place_id": "balabyne#7651_11956",
  "wikidata": "Q2470191",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Балабине",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Balabyne",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010), adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019; selected for English geographical use. Also identical to BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). Also identical to ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Balabino",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for matching older or Russian-derived references in English; independent prose frequency unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrivska",
          "why": "Former settlement name printed in English local history; replacement chronology is inconsistent across checked sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrivka",
          "why": "Variant former Ukrainian name printed in French history; English frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoïé-Stroganovo",
          "why": "Earlier estate name in French transcription; quoted for cross-language matching, not an English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Balabine",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with independent English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Балабине",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoie-Stroganovo",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Petrovskoïé-Stroganovo for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Balabyne",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Balabino",
          "why": "Russian-derived spelling explicitly printed in the French locality reference; French transcription rather than a new official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrivka",
          "why": "Earlier name explicitly printed in French history; exact replacement year not consistently established."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoïé-Stroganovo",
          "why": "Earlier estate/village name in French transcription explicitly printed in the French history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Balabine",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration form for French catalogue/source matching; same system form as in English, French prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoie-Stroganovo",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Petrovskoïé-Stroganovo for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Balabyne is a settlement immediately south of the city of Zaporizhzhia. It lies on the left-bank side of the Dnipro and belongs to the Kushuhum settlement community.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Checked histories differ on whether Balabyne/Balabino replaced earlier Petrivka/Petrivska soon after 1917 or in 1938. No exact renaming year chosen. Reservoir-era geographical descriptions are not repeated as current conditions. Standard-derived romanizations are retrieval aids, not claims of English or French prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balabyne ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balabyne.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1529,
  "slug": "balabyne"
}