{
  "place_id": "kvidzyn#7985_11051",
  "wikidata": "Q326582",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Kwidzyn",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kwidzyn",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marienwerder",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marienwerder in Westpreußen",
          "why": "Expanded German historical form identifying the West Prussian town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marienwerder in Westpreussen",
          "why": "German historical form with ss replacing ß."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kwidzyn",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marienwerder",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kwidzyn is a town above the lower Vistula in Pomeranian Voivodeship. Its brick cathedral and castle form a prominent medieval complex associated with the bishops of Pomesania.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 272,
  "slug": "kwidzyn"
}