{
  "place_id": "taurahe#8069_11237",
  "wikidata": "Q193787",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Tauragė",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Tauragė",
      "why": "Current Lithuanian Latin-script name, retained in English with its native diacritics.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Tauroggen",
          "why": "German historical name well established in English accounts of the 1812 convention."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurog",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurogi",
          "why": "Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurage",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Tauragė",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Tauroggen",
          "why": "Established historical name in French accounts of the convention of 1812."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurogi",
          "why": "Polish historical designation in French regional history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurog",
          "why": "Jewish historical search form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Taurage",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Tauragė is a town on the Jūra river in western Lithuania. Its borderland history includes the Convention of Tauroggen during the Napoleonic wars.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Tauragė is the current Lithuanian name; Tauroggen persists especially as the name associated with the convention. Input label 'Таураге' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 464,
  "slug": "taurage"
}