{
  "place_id": "ostsheshuv#7855_11000",
  "wikidata": "Q642192",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Ostrzeszów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ostrzeszów",
      "why": "The official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its Polish spelling; no romanization is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Schildberg",
          "why": "German historical name, especially relevant to English accounts of wartime prisoner-of-war camps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostrzeszow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ostrzeszów",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Schildberg",
          "why": "German historical camp-location name for French wartime searches; not a current French name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ostrzeszow",
          "why": "Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ostrzeszów is a town in southern Greater Poland. A surviving castle tower marks its medieval past, while its wartime history includes prisoner-of-war camps for Allied servicemen.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 713,
  "slug": "ostrzeszow"
}