{
  "place_id": "pekary-shlonski#7799_11052",
  "wikidata": "Q158488",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Piekary Śląskie",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Piekary Śląskie",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Piekary Slaskie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Deutsch Piekar",
          "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": "Piekary",
          "why": "Shortened name in local and regional contexts; less precise than the full municipal name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Piekary Śląskie",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Piekary Slaskie",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Deutsch Piekar",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Piekary",
          "why": "Short form used when the Silesian location is already clear, including pilgrimage contexts."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Piekary Śląskie is a city in the Upper Silesian industrial area of southern Poland. It combines a coal-mining heritage with an important Marian pilgrimage shrine.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Deutsch Piekar originally names the historical core, not necessarily every district of the present city.",
  "rank": 208,
  "slug": "piekary-slaskie"
}