{
  "place_id": "madona#8158_11456",
  "wikidata": "Q586048",
  "country": "LV",
  "local_name": "Madona",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Madona",
      "why": "Official Latvian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Madohn",
          "why": "German historical name indexed in English and French naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Modohn",
          "why": "Variant German historical spelling explicitly printed in the English locality reference."
        },
        {
          "name": "Birži",
          "why": "Name of the earlier manor whose land underlies the modern town; narrower historical scope."
        },
        {
          "name": "Birzi",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Birži for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Madona",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Madohn",
          "why": "German historical name indexed as a French naming-data alias; no independent frequency claim."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Madona is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. The modern town developed around a railway station on land formerly belonging to Birži Manor.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madona ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madona.",
  "rank": 1428,
  "slug": "madona"
}