{
  "place_id": "piastuv#7899_11157",
  "wikidata": "Q778313",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Piastów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Piastów",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Utrata",
          "why": "Former settlement name before Piastów was adopted in 1926, retained for historical searches."
        },
        {
          "name": "Piastow",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Piastów",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Utrata",
          "why": "Former name, relevant to French historical sources predating the 1926 change."
        },
        {
          "name": "Piastow",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Piastów is a town immediately west of Warsaw in Masovian Voivodeship. Railway access helped it develop as an industrial and residential part of the capital’s metropolitan area.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Distinguish the town from the Utrata river and other places of that name. Input label 'Пястув' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. The 1926 renaming is documented at https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/MP/1926/s/24/65 .",
  "rank": 431,
  "slug": "piastow"
}