{
  "place_id": "dokshytsi#8049_11542",
  "wikidata": "Q954618",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Докшыцы",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dokshytsy",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English reference spelling; Russian-derived names and dated national-system forms are distinguished below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dokshitsy",
          "why": "Russian-based English reference name from Докшицы."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokšycy",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization (2007), recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, without claiming these remained the domestic rules after 2023."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokszyce",
          "why": "Polish historical name quoted in English regional and genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokshits",
          "why": "Jewish-community name recorded in English historical or genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokshitz",
          "why": "Jewish historical spelling indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokshitse",
          "why": "Historical Latin variant indexed in English naming data; precise source-language attribution uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokšicy",
          "why": "Historical Latin variant indexed in English naming data; source-language attribution uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dugscitz",
          "why": "Historical spelling indexed in English naming data; medium certainty, not a regular modern romanization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokchytsy",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not a claimed common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Докшыцы",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Doksicy",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Dokšicy for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Dokchytsy",
      "why": "French heading uses ch for ш; Russian-derived Dokchitsy is separately printed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dokchitsy",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly printed in the French locality reference; useful for older French-source matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokšycy",
          "why": "Belarusian Latin spelling explicitly quoted in the French introduction."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokszyce",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly quoted in French locality references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokshytsy",
          "why": "International spelling for cross-references in French; independent French prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Doksycy",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Dokšycy for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Dokshytsy is a town in Belarus's Vitebsk Region near the upper Berezina. It has a long history within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and interwar Poland, and its Jewish community was devastated in the Holocaust.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 system labels are dated; domestic rules changed in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokshytsy ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokchytsy.",
  "rank": 1414,
  "slug": "dokshytsy"
}