{
  "place_id": "bilhorai#7808_11262",
  "wikidata": "Q319445",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Biłgoraj",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Biłgoraj",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bilgoray",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived English spelling in Jewish historical writing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bilgoraj",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Biłgoraj",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bilgoray",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived form relevant to French accounts of the Singer family and Jewish life in Poland."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bilgoraj",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Biłgoraj is a town in Lublin Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, near the forests of the Roztocze region. It was known for sieve making and had a substantial Jewish community before the Holocaust.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label 'Білгорай' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Yiddish Bilgoray is documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%C5%82goraj .",
  "rank": 401,
  "slug": "bilgoraj"
}