{
  "place_id": "hlusk#7938_11593",
  "wikidata": "Q2995174",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Глуск",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hlusk",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English reference spelling; Russian-based forms and dated national-system spellings are distinguished below.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Glusk",
          "why": "Russian-based English form from Глуск."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hłusk",
          "why": "Polish historical name quoted in English regional or genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Halusk",
          "why": "Jewish-community name quoted in English historical or genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hlousk",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles cited in English; not a claimed common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Глуск",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hlousk",
      "why": "French reference heading uses ou for у and h for Belarusian г; Russian-based Glousk is separately given.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Glousk",
          "why": "Russian-based alternative explicitly given in the French locality reference; retained for older French-source matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hłusk",
          "why": "Traditional Belarusian Latin spelling and Polish name explicitly quoted in French prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hlusk",
          "why": "English international spelling for matching sources quoted in French; independent French prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hlusk is a settlement in the southwestern part of Belarus's Mogilev Region. Its history includes a castle and a Jewish community destroyed during the Holocaust.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 labels are dated; domestic rules changed in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlusk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlousk ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Глуськ_(Білорусь) ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Глуск.",
  "rank": 1363,
  "slug": "hlusk"
}