{
  "place_id": "petrovo-krasnosillia#7683_12159",
  "wikidata": "Q2415307",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Петрово-Красносілля",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Petrovo-Krasnosillia",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Petrovske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Petrovo-Krasnosillia in 2016; still frequent in English reporting based on occupation usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the Soviet name; still used by the occupation authorities."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo Krasnosillia",
          "why": "Unhyphenated form also appearing in French reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo Krasnoselie",
          "why": "Russian-based form printed in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo-Krasnosillya",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; a standard-derived retrieval spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo-Krasnosìllâ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo-Krasnosilli͡a",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Петрово-Красносілля",
          "why": "Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Petrovo Krasnossillia",
      "why": "French reference spelling, using ss between vowels and a space in place of the Ukrainian hyphen. Attested in the French-language entry checked for this place.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Petrovske",
          "why": "Former name explicitly given in the French entry; replaced under Ukrainian law in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the former name for French historical and occupation-source searches."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo Krasnosillia",
          "why": "Unhyphenated spelling with one s, also present in the French reference article; variation is editorial."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo Krasnoselie",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Petrovo-Krasnosillia",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling for cross-language searches in French; see the English block for its transliteration provenance."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Petrovo-Krasnosillia is a town northwest of Khrustalnyi in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It lies on the uplands of the Donets Ridge.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The Ukrainian government restored the name Petrovo-Krasnosillia in 2016, replacing Petrovske. Russian and occupation usage often retains the former name. The French reference spelling doubles s and omits the hyphen; the Ukrainian official romanization has one s and a hyphen.",
  "rank": 738,
  "slug": "petrovo-krasnosillia"
}