{
  "place_id": "kamianka-buzka#7783_11352",
  "wikidata": "Q1020330",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Кам'янка-Бузька",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kamianka-Buzka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, using the Ukrainian national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kamyanka-Buzka",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based spelling retaining ya for я."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamenka-Bugskaya",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling, relevant to Soviet-era sources and English texts drawing on Russian; not an official change of name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamianka Strumilova",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced in 1944."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka Strumiłowa",
          "why": "Historical Polish name quoted in English regional history and genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka-Strumilowa",
          "why": "Hyphenated, diacritic-free historical spelling encountered in maps and bibliographic records."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamianka-Bouzka",
          "why": "French-language name, relevant when an English text quotes a French source title or historical reference; not the selected English main form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kam”yanka-Buz’ka",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965); a standard-derived retrieval form, not claimed as an independently attested press exonym. Confidence in textual occurrence is medium."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kam\"yanka-Buz'ka",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form, for matching older name indexes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Кам'янка-Бузька",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local addresses, maps or source titles cited in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Каменка-Бугская",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka Strumilowa",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Kamionka Strumiłowa for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kamianka-Bouzka",
      "why": "French reference form using ou in Bouzka; Kamenka-Bougskaïa is the older Russian-derived French form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kamenka-Bougskaïa",
          "why": "Russian-based French reference form; ou and ï follow French transcription conventions."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka Strumiłowa",
          "why": "Polish historical form used in French accounts of Austrian Galicia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka Strzumilowa",
          "why": "Historical form explicitly given in the French reference account for the Austrian period."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamianka-Buzka",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling used in French source citations."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamenka-Bougskaia",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Kamenka-Bougskaïa for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kamionka Strumilowa",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Kamionka Strumiłowa for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kamianka-Buzka is a town on the Western Bug northeast of Lviv in western Ukraine. Its historic buildings include a wooden church of Saint Nicholas, and its earlier name linked it with the Strumiłło family.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The present Ukrainian name dates from 1944. Kamionka Strumiłowa and Kamianka Strumilova are historical forms. Local apostrophe forms in formal bibliographic systems are omitted where their exact treatment was not verified. https://esu.com.ua/article-10985 ; https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CA%5CKamianka6Buzka.htm Formal romanization variants are search aids and do not establish common usage in either language. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamianka-Buzka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamianka-Bouzka.",
  "rank": 932,
  "slug": "kamianka-buzka"
}