{
  "place_id": "bashtanka#7633_11802",
  "wikidata": "Q572899",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Баштанка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bashtanka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Poltavka",
          "why": "Earlier name, replaced by Bashtanka in 1928."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bachtanka",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Baštanka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Баштанка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bachtanka",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; French ch renders ш.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bashtanka",
          "why": "International spelling also used in French; Bachtanka adapts sh to French ch."
        },
        {
          "name": "Poltavka",
          "why": "Earlier name, replaced in 1928; retained as a French historical search term."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bashtanka is a town northeast of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. It serves the surrounding farming area and is associated with the local anti-White uprising during the civil war.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 808,
  "slug": "bashtanka"
}