{
  "place_id": "belzhytsi#7843_11237",
  "wikidata": "Q854624",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Bełżyce",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bełżyce",
      "why": "Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Belzhitza",
          "why": "Jewish historical retrieval spelling indexed in English naming data; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belzhytze",
          "why": "Jewish historical variant indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belzhitse",
          "why": "Jewish historical variant indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belzhits",
          "why": "Jewish historical variant indexed in English naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belzyce",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Bełżyce for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bełżyce",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Belzyce",
          "why": "Accent-free form explicitly indexed in French naming data."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bełżyce is a town west of Lublin in eastern Poland. It has a history as a market town and was once an important centre of Protestant religious life.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bełżyce ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bełżyce.",
  "rank": 1498,
  "slug": "belzyce"
}