{
  "place_id": "khodzezh#7943_10939",
  "wikidata": "",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Chodzież",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Chodzież",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chodziesen",
          "why": "Older German historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kolmar in Posen",
          "why": "German historical name used to distinguish this town from Colmar in Alsace."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kolmar",
          "why": "Short German historical name, ambiguous without context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chodziez",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Colmar",
          "why": "Historical German administrative spelling for the Polish town; distinguish Colmar in Alsace. Attested in English archival catalogues."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chodschesen",
          "why": "Older German name attested in the historical Polish geographical dictionary, relevant to archival searching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kodschesen",
          "why": "Older German spelling encountered in historical town-name references; less familiar in English than Chodziesen."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chodzież",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kolmar in Posen",
          "why": "German historical name quoted in French sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chodziesen",
          "why": "Older German name useful in historical searches."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chodziez",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Colmar",
          "why": "German historical name quoted in historical material; the Polish town must be distinguished from Colmar in Alsace."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Chodzież is a town among lakes in Greater Poland Voivodeship, north of Poznań. Its industrial history is especially associated with porcelain and other ceramics.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The historical Kolmar name refers here to the Polish town, not Colmar in France. Input label 'Ходзеж' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification. Historical spellings: https://wikisource.org/wiki/S%C5%82ownik_geograficzny_Kr%C3%B3lestwa_Polskiego/Chodzie%C5%BC ; https://www.zikaron.tourolib.org/archival-records/chodziez .",
  "rank": 499,
  "slug": "chodziez"
}