{
  "place_id": "sartana#7620_12094",
  "wikidata": "Q782264",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Сартана",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sartana",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, using the Ukrainian national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Prymorske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Soviet name, replaced by the restored Sartana in 1990."
        },
        {
          "name": "Primorskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the former name, replaced in 1990."
        },
        {
          "name": "Сартана",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local addresses, maps or source titles cited in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sartana",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Prymorske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Sartana in 1990; useful in French archival references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Primorskoïe",
          "why": "French rendering of the Russian former name; replaced in 1990, French prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Primorskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Primorskoïe for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sartana is a settlement near Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, southeastern Ukraine. It is one of the historic centres of the Greeks of the Azov region and has a museum devoted to their culture.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The supplied Wikidata Q782264 identifies the Ukrainian settlement correctly. The unqualified English Sartana title can instead lead to a film character; that unrelated linked item must not replace the supplied ID. Sartana restored in 1990 after Prymorske. https://history.org.ua/LiberUA/ReestrRozFond_2013/ReestrRozFond_2013.pdf 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/Sartana_(settlement) ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartana_(Ukraine).",
  "rank": 937,
  "slug": "sartana"
}