{
  "place_id": "balvi#8173_11514",
  "wikidata": "Q218402",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Balvi",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Balvi",
      "why": "Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bolvi",
          "why": "Latgalian local name explicitly quoted in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bolwen",
          "why": "German historical name indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bołowsk",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly quoted in English prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bolowsk",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Bołowsk for English indexing; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Balvi",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bolwen",
          "why": "German historical name recorded in French naming data; French prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bolvi",
          "why": "Latgalian name recorded in French naming data; not the current French heading."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Balvi is a town in northeastern Latvia, in the Latgale region. It lies beside Lake Balvi and serves as the centre of the surrounding municipality.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvi ; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218402 ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvi.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1654,
  "slug": "balvi"
}