{
  "place_id": "postavy#8062_11490",
  "wikidata": "Q539012",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Паставы",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Pastavy",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English geographical spelling, preferred here to the Russian-mediated form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Postavy",
          "why": "Russian-based name used in English maps and histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Postawy",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English discussions of interwar Poland and Jewish communities."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Pastavy",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Postavy",
          "why": "Russian-mediated spelling present in French geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Postawy",
          "why": "Polish historical form quoted in French accounts of the interwar region."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Pastavy is a town in Vitebsk Region in northern Belarus on the Miadzielka River. A planned market square and the Tyzenhaus estate recall its eighteenth-century development.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 542,
  "slug": "pastavy"
}