{
  "place_id": "pulavy#7856_11220",
  "wikidata": "Q320007",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Puławy",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Puławy",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pulawy",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowa Aleksandria",
          "why": "Official name under Russian imperial rule, 1846–1918; Polish rendering of New Alexandria."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novo-Aleksandriya",
          "why": "Russian-based rendering of the imperial-period name, used in older English geographical sources."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Puławy",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pulawy",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nouvelle-Alexandrie",
          "why": "Translated imperial-period name in French historical geography; replaced by Puławy in 1918."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowa Aleksandria",
          "why": "Polish form of the imperial-period name, quoted in French historical works."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Puławy is a town on the Vistula in Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland. The Czartoryski palace and park recall its role as a centre of Polish cultural life.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Imperial New Alexandria is unrelated to Alexandria in Egypt.",
  "rank": 232,
  "slug": "pulawy"
}