{
  "place_id": "pinchiv#7807_11140",
  "wikidata": "Q275592",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Pińczów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Pińczów",
      "why": "Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pintchov",
          "why": "Historical spelling listed in the English JewishGen community and cemetery indexes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pinchev",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pin'chuv",
          "why": "Russian-based historical spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pinchov",
          "why": "Historical Latin spelling listed in JewishGen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pintshev",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived historical spelling listed in JewishGen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pinczow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Pińczów",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pintchov",
          "why": "Jewish historical name for retrieval in French-language sources; exact frequency in French prose is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pinchev",
          "why": "Yiddish-derived name in the JewishGen index, useful for French Jewish-history retrieval; independent French prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pintshev",
          "why": "Historical Yiddish-derived form relevant to French bibliographic searches; used in the title of a memorial book."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pinczow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Pińczów is a town in the Nida valley in southern Poland. It was an important centre of the Reformation and preserves monuments linked to its Renaissance patrons and former Jewish community.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Additional historical spellings are verified in the English JewishGen cemetery/community indexes; their usefulness in French research does not establish frequency in French prose. https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/pinczow Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów.",
  "rank": 962,
  "slug": "pinczow"
}