{
  "place_id": "mariiampole#8030_11297",
  "wikidata": "Q1351046",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Marijampolė",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Marijampolė",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name, retained with ė in edited English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marijampole",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Lithuanian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mariampol",
          "why": "Polish historical name, also used in older English geographical and Jewish historical sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mariampole",
          "why": "Older Latin-script rendering, found in English historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kapsukas",
          "why": "Soviet-period official name, 1955–1989; the historical name was restored in 1989."
        },
        {
          "name": "Мариямполе",
          "why": "Russian Cyrillic rendering of the current name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Мариамполь",
          "why": "Older Russian Cyrillic name in imperial-period records."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Marijampolė",
      "why": "Same Lithuanian form as in English; French geographical writing also uses the unaccented form and the former Kapsukas in historical contexts.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marijampole",
          "why": "French typography may omit the dot above Lithuanian ė."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mariampol",
          "why": "Historical Polish-derived form used in French accounts of the region."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mariampolé",
          "why": "French adaptation explicitly recorded in French geographical references; secondary to the modern Lithuanian spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kapsukas",
          "why": "Soviet-period name used in French references for 1955–1989; no longer the official name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Marijampolė is a city on the Šešupė in southwestern Lithuania. It is an important urban centre of the Suvalkija region and a centre of Lithuania’s national cultural revival.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Marijampolė was renamed Kapsukas in 1955 and regained its historical name in 1989. Historical-language spellings vary; no present-day French government preference is claimed.",
  "rank": 284,
  "slug": "marijampole"
}