{
  "place_id": "bartoshytsi#8014_11156",
  "wikidata": "Q809585",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Bartoszyce",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bartoszyce",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bartenstein",
          "why": "Historical German name used in English historical writing and archival searches; not the present official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bartenstein (East Prussia)",
          "why": "Historical English disambiguating label."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bartoszyce",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bartenstein",
          "why": "German historical name used in French accounts of East Prussia."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bartoszyce is a town on the Łyna in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, near the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region. Its surviving gate and Gothic churches recall the town’s medieval development.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label 'Бартошиці' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 444,
  "slug": "bartoszyce"
}