{
  "place_id": "adazhi#8170_11351",
  "wikidata": "Q336006",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Ādaži",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ādaži",
      "why": "Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Aahof",
          "why": "German historical estate name associated with the modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neuermühlen",
          "why": "German historical name of the wider parish and castle area; historical boundaries do not match the modern town exactly."
        },
        {
          "name": "Adazi",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Ādaži for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neuermuhlen",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Neuermühlen for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ādaži",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Neuermühlen",
          "why": "German historical name explicitly given in French references; can refer to the wider parish and castle area."
        },
        {
          "name": "Aahof",
          "why": "German estate name associated with the modern town, retained for French Baltic history searches."
        },
        {
          "name": "Adazi",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Ādaži for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neuermuhlen",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Neuermühlen for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ādaži is a town northeast of Riga in Latvia, beside the Gauja River. A nearby military base and training area make the name familiar in accounts of Latvia's defence forces and NATO deployments.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Aahof identifies the estate around which the modern town grew. Neuermühlen often identifies the wider historical parish or castle area around Bukulti/Baltezers, and is not an exact modern-boundary synonym. https://enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/176289 Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ādaži ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ādaži.",
  "rank": 1238,
  "slug": "adazi"
}