{
  "place_id": "barchevo#7990_11149",
  "wikidata": "Q807991",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Barczewo",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Barczewo",
      "why": "Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg",
          "why": "German historical name recorded in English geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg in Ostpreußen",
          "why": "Qualified German historical name identifying the East Prussian town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartembork",
          "why": "Former Polish name, replaced by Barczewo in 1946."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartbór",
          "why": "Older Polish name explicitly listed in English historical reference text."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartbórz",
          "why": "Older Polish name explicitly listed in English historical reference text."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenberg",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenbergk",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wathberg",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bartenburg",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Warperc",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wasperc",
          "why": "Historical Polish documentary spelling explicitly listed in English reference history; not the modern official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg in Ostpreussen",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Wartenburg in Ostpreußen for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartbor",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Wartbór for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartborz",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Wartbórz for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Barczewo",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg in Ostpreußen",
          "why": "German historical name explicitly quoted in French geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg",
          "why": "Short historical German name explicitly used in French historical text."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartembork",
          "why": "Pre-1946 Polish name for French archival matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wartenburg in Ostpreussen",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Wartenburg in Ostpreußen for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Barczewo is a town east of Olsztyn in Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Its historic centre contains churches and traces of the town's medieval layout.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Wartembork replaced by Barczewo in 1946. Wartenburg is highly ambiguous without the East Prussian qualifier; it must not identify an unrelated German town. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barczewo ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barczewo.",
  "rank": 1267,
  "slug": "barczewo"
}