{
  "place_id": "novohrudok#7977_11434",
  "wikidata": "Q278743",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Навагрудак",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Navahrudak",
      "why": "Established English Belarusian-based name; the same spelling results from BGN/PCGN 1979 and the 2007 national geographical romanization, superseded domestically in 2023.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novogrudok",
          "why": "Russian-based English name widely used in older histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowogródek",
          "why": "Historical Polish name, common in English accounts of Mickiewicz and the Holocaust."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowogrodek",
          "why": "Polish historical name without the acute accent."
        },
        {
          "name": "Naugardukas",
          "why": "Lithuanian name used in English Lithuanian historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novardok",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name established in English writing on the Novardok yeshiva tradition."
        },
        {
          "name": "Navaredok",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived variant used in Jewish historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Navahradak",
          "why": "Belarusian alternative form based on Наваградак."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новогрудок",
          "why": "Russian original-script name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Navahroudak",
      "why": "French Belarusian-based geographical name using ou for у; Polish Nowogródek remains familiar in French literary and historical writing.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novogroudok",
          "why": "Russian-based French geographical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowogródek",
          "why": "Historical Polish name established in French writing on Mickiewicz and the Holocaust."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowogrodek",
          "why": "French plain-text spelling of the Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novardok",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name used in French accounts of the yeshiva tradition."
        },
        {
          "name": "Navahrudak",
          "why": "International spelling in French map references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Navahrudak is a historic town in Grodno Region in western Belarus. Its castle ruins and association with the poet Adam Mickiewicz reflect its place in Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "No birthplace claim is made for Mickiewicz: accounts differ between the town and nearby Zaosie. Main French form: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navahroudak . Input label 'Новогрудок' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 371,
  "slug": "navahrudak"
}