{
  "place_id": "chekhovytsi-dzedzytsi#7772_11055",
  "wikidata": "Q263684",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Czechowice-Dziedzice",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Czechowice-Dziedzice",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Czechowice Dziedzice",
          "why": "Unhyphenated typographic variant; the official Polish compound has a hyphen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czechowice",
          "why": "Name of one constituent town and the merged town from 1951 until the full name was adopted in 1958."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dziedzice",
          "why": "Historical constituent settlement, now part of the town; not an exact synonym for the entire municipality."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czechowitz",
          "why": "German name of the Czechowice component, used in English historical sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzieditz",
          "why": "German name of the Dziedzice component, used in historical and railway records."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Czechowice-Dziedzice",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Czechowice Dziedzice",
          "why": "French typography may omit the hyphen; Polish retains it."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czechowice",
          "why": "Former name of the merged municipality, 1951–1958, and name of its older constituent settlement."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czechowitz",
          "why": "German name of the Czechowice component, retained in French historical references; narrower than the modern town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzieditz",
          "why": "German name of the Dziedzice component, encountered in French references to older railway or military records."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Czechowice-Dziedzice is an industrial town in Silesian Voivodeship near Bielsko-Biała. Its railway junction, refinery and mining heritage reflect the merger of two older settlements.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The two settlements merged in 1951 under Czechowice; Czechowice-Dziedzice was adopted in 1958. Component names are qualified, not asserted as equal modern aliases.",
  "rank": 295,
  "slug": "czechowice-dziedzice"
}