{
  "place_id": "hirske#7707_12138",
  "wikidata": "Q1004740",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Гірське",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hirske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gorskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hirs’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gìrsʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hirsʹke",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гірське",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hirske",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gorskoïe",
          "why": "Russian-derived French reference form, with ï marking the vowel sequence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gorskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Gorskoïe for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hirske is a small city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its development was closely connected with coal mining in the Donbas.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirske ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirske.",
  "rank": 1058,
  "slug": "hirske"
}