{
  "place_id": "anikshchiai#8085_11394",
  "wikidata": "Q505416",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Anykščiai",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Anykščiai",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Onikszty",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English Lithuanian history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Onikshty",
          "why": "Russian-based and Jewish-community form used in historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Aniksht",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish historical and genealogical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Anikshty",
          "why": "Belarusian-based name explicitly quoted in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Onikschten",
          "why": "German historical name quoted in English geographical and historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Weimar of Lithuania",
          "why": "English descriptive literary nickname explicitly recorded in references; not an official place name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Anyksciai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Anykščiai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Anykščiai",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Anyksčiai",
          "why": "Partly diacritic-stripped spelling indexed in French naming data; not the correct fully accented Lithuanian form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Anyksciai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Anykščiai for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Anykščiai is a town on the Šventoji River in northeastern Lithuania. It is associated with Lithuanian writers and the pine forest celebrated in Antanas Baranauskas's poetry.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykščiai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykščiai.",
  "rank": 1123,
  "slug": "anyksciai"
}