{
  "place_id": "ratybor#7782_11012",
  "wikidata": "Q25302",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Racibórz",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Racibórz",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Raciborz",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ratibor",
          "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": "Ratiboř",
          "why": "Czech name encountered in English accounts of Silesian and Bohemian history."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Racibórz",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Raciborz",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ratibor",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ratiboř",
          "why": "Czech historical-geographical form, relevant when French texts refer to Czech or Bohemian sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Racibórz is a city on the Oder in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. Its castle and old town recall its role as a ducal centre of Upper Silesia.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 210,
  "slug": "raciborz"
}