{
  "place_id": "tsekhanuv#7937_11145",
  "wikidata": "Q745051",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Ciechanów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ciechanów",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ciechanow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zichenau",
          "why": "German occupation name during the Second World War; used in English accounts of Nazi administrative history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tsekhanov",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling encountered in English imperial-period records."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ciechanów",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ciechanow",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zichenau",
          "why": "German name in French histories of the Nazi occupation and its administrative district."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tsekhanov",
          "why": "Russian-derived historical spelling, relevant when French works quote Russian imperial records."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ciechanów is a town on the Łydynia in northern Masovian Voivodeship. Its brick castle recalls its role as a seat of the dukes of Masovia.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 246,
  "slug": "ciechanow"
}