{
  "place_id": "shyrvintos#8058_11386",
  "wikidata": "Q391764",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Širvintos",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Širvintos",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Szyrwinty",
          "why": "Polish historical or community name recorded in regional references; English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Širvintai",
          "why": "Interwar Lithuanian name explicitly quoted in English local history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sirvintos",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Širvintos for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sirvintai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Širvintai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Širvintos",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sirvintos",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Širvintos for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Širvintos is a district town in eastern Lithuania, north of Vilnius. It takes its name from the Širvinta River and is associated with fighting during Lithuania's wars of independence.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391764 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Širvintos ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Širvintos.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1573,
  "slug": "sirvintos"
}