{
  "place_id": "zarasai#8096_11458",
  "wikidata": "Q147750",
  "country": "LT",
  "local_name": "Zarasai",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zarasai",
      "why": "Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Jeziorosy",
          "why": "Polish historical or community name recorded in regional references; English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Jeziorosa",
          "why": "Historical Polish map spelling explicitly quoted in English history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoalexandrovsk",
          "why": "Imperial Russian name used from 1836 until 1918 according to the checked history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoaleksandrovsk",
          "why": "Alternative English romanization of the imperial name, also printed in French history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ežerėnai",
          "why": "Former Lithuanian official name used in 1919–1929; replaced by Zarasai in 1929."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ezherene",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived historical form explicitly quoted in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ezerenai",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Ežerėnai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zarasai",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Jeziorosy",
          "why": "Polish historical name explicitly quoted in the French locality reference."
        },
        {
          "name": "Jeziorosa",
          "why": "Historical name explicitly printed in French history and older map references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoaleksandrovsk",
          "why": "Former imperial name explicitly printed in French history for 1836–1918."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zarasai is a town in northeastern Lithuania, surrounded by lakes near the Latvian border. It is a district centre with a long history as a market locality on routes across the eastern Baltic region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Imperial Novoalexandrovsk/Novoaleksandrovsk 1836–1918; Lithuanian Ežerėnai 1919–1929; Zarasai adopted 1929. French text has inconsistent early chronology, omitted from description. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarasai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarasai.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1542,
  "slug": "zarasai"
}