{
  "place_id": "gryfuv-shlonskyi#7834_10856",
  "wikidata": "Q988179",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Gryfów Śląski",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Gryfów Śląski",
      "why": "Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Greiffenberg",
          "why": "Historical German name used in English regional history; not the present Polish civic name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Greiffenberg in Schlesien",
          "why": "Qualified German historical name distinguishing it from namesakes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfów",
          "why": "Short Polish form used in English reference prose."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryphimontium",
          "why": "Latin historical name indexed in English naming data; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfogóra",
          "why": "Early postwar Polish name before adoption of Gryfów Śląski."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfiogóra",
          "why": "Variant early postwar Polish name explicitly recorded in English history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfow Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfów Śląski for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfów for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfogora",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfogóra for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfiogora",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfiogóra for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Gryfów Śląski",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Greiffenberg",
          "why": "German historical name explicitly recorded in the French locality reference; used for the town’s earlier history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Greiffenberg in Schlesien",
          "why": "Qualified German name explicitly indexed in French naming data."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfów",
          "why": "Short Polish form indexed in French naming data; fuller heading above."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryphimontium",
          "why": "Latin historical name indexed in French naming data; prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfow Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfów Śląski for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gryfow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gryfów for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Gryfów Śląski is a town on the Kwisa River in southwestern Poland. Its old town and the nearby ruins of Gryf Castle reflect its medieval Silesian history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Empty Wikidata resolved to Q988179. Gryfów Śląski has a space; Ukrainian input hyphen is not copied into the Polish name. Medieval origins and exact town-charter dates remain disputed and are omitted. Empty input Wikidata ID resolved to Q988179. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryfów_Śląski ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryfów_Śląski.",
  "rank": 1453,
  "slug": "gryfow-slaski"
}