{
  "place_id": "liielvarde#8150_11378",
  "wikidata": "Q597346",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Lielvārde",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Lielvārde",
      "why": "Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lennewarden",
          "why": "German historical name of the town, superseded as the official name after Latvian independence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rembate",
          "why": "Earlier railway-station name and a neighbouring locality name; not an unrestricted synonym for the whole modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ringmundshof",
          "why": "Historical manor/station name indexed in English naming data; narrower scope than the modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ringmundhofa",
          "why": "Latvian-adapted historical station spelling explicitly printed in English history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lielvarde",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Lielvārde for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Lielvārde",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lennewarden",
          "why": "Historical German name explicitly printed in French history, which dates adoption of Lielvārde to 1919."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rembate",
          "why": "Neighbouring manor/station name indexed in French naming data; narrower or different scope than the modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ringmundshof",
          "why": "Historical manor/station name indexed in French naming data; not a general modern French synonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lielvardė",
          "why": "French naming-data alias with a Lithuanian-style ending; source-language attribution and French prose frequency uncertain."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lielvarde",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Lielvārde for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Lielvārde is a town on the Daugava River southeast of Riga in Latvia. It is associated with the poet Andrejs Pumpurs and with a traditional patterned belt that has become a Latvian cultural symbol.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Modern town, historic manor, railway station and neighbouring Rembate do not have identical scope. French history dates official Lielvārde to 1919. French and English accounts make conflicting claims about Soviet-era deportations, not used in description. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597346 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lielvārde ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lielvārde.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1559,
  "slug": "lielvarde"
}