{
  "place_id": "bzheziny#7877_11097",
  "wikidata": "Q324917",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Brzeziny",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Brzeziny",
      "why": "Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Brezin",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived spelling used in Jewish historical or genealogical references; not the modern civic name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Löwenstadt",
          "why": "German occupation name used during the Second World War; historical only."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lowenstadt",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Löwenstadt for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Brzeziny",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Brezin",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name for searches in French Jewish history; frequency in French prose unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Brzeziny is a town on the Mrożyca east of Łódź in central Poland. Clothing and tailoring shaped its economy, including the working life of its former Jewish community.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 815,
  "slug": "brzeziny"
}