{
  "place_id": "ilava#7977_11086",
  "wikidata": "Q8194",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Iława",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Iława",
      "why": "Polish Latin-script name used in English; the native spelling is retained rather than retransliterating the Ukrainian input label.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Deutsch Eylau",
          "why": "Historical German name used in English historical and genealogical writing; not the current Polish name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Eylau",
          "why": "Shortened historical German name; potentially ambiguous with Preußisch Eylau, now Bagrationovsk."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ilawa",
          "why": "Spelling without native diacritics, used in English plain-text indexes and international search; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Iława",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Deutsch Eylau",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town; not the ordinary present-day French name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Eylau",
          "why": "Short historical form; French accounts of the Battle of Eylau usually refer to a different town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ilawa",
          "why": "French plain-text and search variant without native diacritics; the main form keeps the local spelling."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Iława is a town in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on Lake Jeziorak. It is a railway junction and a centre for lake tourism.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Do not confuse with the East Prussian battlefield town now called Bagrationovsk. Input label 'Ілава' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 319,
  "slug": "ilawa"
}